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NEW AFRICA. 



name," is about forty miles from the terminus of the road and some 

 thousand feet above it. This section of the line taps a level country of 

 brilliant green dotted with small parks of flourishing trees. 



APPROACH TO LAKE— PORT FLORENCE. 



Realizing that Lake Victoria Nyanza is the greatest of the African 

 lakes and, next to Lake Superior, in the United States, the largest body 

 of fresh water in the world, Mr. Roosevelt shared the common dis- 

 appointment of all travelers who approach it from the east for the first 



time. The country is so flat around Gulf Kavirondo that all that can 

 be seen is an unimpressive arm of dirty brown water thrust out into the 

 landscape — no vast expanse of blue waters stretching to the horizon, 

 with appropriate settings of rocky clififs or smiling shores. But the train 

 soon runs onto the pier at Port Florence, which is little more than a 

 transfer station from the railroad to the steamers which ply across the 



