NEW AFRICA. 



IN BLACK AND WHITE. 



Having* left the Roosevelt expedition in the hunters' paradise of British 

 East Africa, it seems a fitting opportunity to briefly retrace the route taken 

 by the Uganda railroad, which is virtually fixing New Africa on the map of 

 the world, and first describe the country through which it passes in "black." 

 The tribes of colored men seem now reconciled to the new order of things 

 and are no longer to be considered as dense savages, but as considerably more 

 than semi-civilized. 



THE WANYIKA. 



A few miles out from Mombasa commence the little villages of the Wan- 

 yika — sometimes not more than a small collection of huts, surrounded by a 

 high fence of trees, vines or thorny shrubbery. Such defenses are partly a 

 remnant of the days when they were subject to the attacks of the fierce Masai 

 warriors or the equally merciless slave hunters ; but they are still necessary as 

 protections against lions and other flesh eaters. They raise vegetables and 

 fruits on small tracts of land, or occasionally act as cattle herders, and are 

 scattered with camps of railroad employes or squads of irregular infantry 

 nearly to the Athi plains. Their appearance bespeaks considerable Arabian 

 blood. 



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