228 SAM DARLING'S REMINISCENCES 



she is not risking that now. Mr. Greswolde Wil- 

 liams's racing successes are in advance of any 

 owner and jockey in that district. 



On going from Nairobi to Njora by the Uganda 



Railway, I saw lions, leopards, hundreds of zebra, 



hartebeeste, orang-outang, hundreds of 



beast ostriches, and buffaloes, from the train, 

 show 



and many times felt glad I was in a 



place of safety. I had often read of the wild 

 animals to be seen from the train, but little ex- 

 pected to be a witness of the same myself. On 

 the Uganda Railway the only fuel used on the 

 engines is wood. 



During the time I stayed with my children at 

 Njora I was invited by their neighbour, Mr. Trevor 

 Sheen, to see a full team of twenty-two oxen in 

 harness pulling the reaping machine, which thrashed 

 the corn as it went along, leaving the straw on the 

 ground, which they afterwards burnt. It seemed 

 to me such a waste. Close by is one of Lord 

 Delamere's farms, which is growing wattle, to- 

 bacco, beans, and maize. 



I returned home by the first German boat 

 sailing from Mombasa, Adolph Woermann. Every- 

 thing was nice and clean and spick 



On a ° f . 



German and span on board. They were princi- 

 pally Germans on board, and were very 

 keen at all the games. Practically the whole crew, 



