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Changamwe or Mazeras, fruit is usually to be bought, 

 and we will lay in a supply of mangoes, bananas, 

 and oranges. A stop is made about 2 p.m. for 

 luncheon, but on the whole it is better to have a 

 well-stocked luncheon basket, in sampling the contents 

 of which much time and provender may be profitably 

 consumed. After twenty miles the dull uninteresting 

 Taru desert is entered on, and affords a period 

 admirably suited to slumber which we will indulge 

 in up to Maungu. Here, as it is getting cool, we 

 sit up and take notice, searching the bush country for 

 a sight of lesser Kudu, oryx or vulturine guinea-fowl. 

 At certain seasons most admirable sport is to be 

 obtained here ; which fact the railway officials, 

 with considerable wisdom, kept to themselves as 

 long as possible. About 7 o'clock the train reached 

 Voi and dinner. The fare is clean and ample, if 

 not wonderfully appetising. The consumption of 

 much beer is to be recommended. As an aid to 

 slumber it is not to be surpassed. There are several 

 mosquitos at Voi, and as they are nearly all carriers 

 of malaria, a dose of quinine will not come amiss. 

 While at dinner, our boys will have made up our 

 beds. If there are only two of us in the carriage 

 all is well, but if three a little tact is needed 

 to acquire the bed on the single side, leaving one's 

 companions to sleep one over the other on the seat 

 and the bunk that lets down above it from the roof. 

 Make no mistake now in piling on rugs, as every hour 

 will bring a lower temperature, and the bracing 

 morning will be very different from the moist heat of 

 yesterday. Two or three years ago, on waking up 

 and glancing in a looking glass, one was faced with a 

 brick-red face, and one's hair contained either a couple 



