From Naples to Entebbe. 



from behind the groups of trees, or ostriches driven into swift 

 flight by the noise of the passing train ; while now and again 

 the traveller mav be so lucky as to behold a lion sauntering 



BANANA SELLERS, KISUMU. 



across the plain, less startled perhaps than the onlookers, who 

 gaze astounded upon the extraordinary sight. 



About half-way on the journey stands Nairobi, a flourishing- 

 little town, thanks to the healthy climate and the fertility of the 

 soil. Presently the country assumes a mountainous character, 

 and the line climbs steep ridges clad witli luxuriant forests of 

 juniper and other evergreens, or penetrates into narrow silent 

 valleys to reach at last tlie sunnnit of the heights which form 

 the eastern clift' of the liift Valley, that vast entrenchment 

 which winds througii high plateaux between Lakes Kukwa and 

 Nyassa to the south-west, and the Gulfs of Tajurra and of Aden 



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