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IN AFRICA 



big square filled with large trees marks the park, 

 and a number of rather pretentious one-story build- 

 ings display signs that tell you where you may buy 

 almost anything, from a suit of clothes to a maga- 

 zine rifle. 



Goanese, East Indian, and European shops are 

 scattered at intervals along this one long, wide 

 street. Rickshaws, pedestrians, bullock carts, horse- 

 men, and heavily burdened porters are passing con- 

 stantly back and forth, almost always in the middle 



The Main Street Is a Busy Place 



of the street. Bicycles, one or two motorcycles, and 

 a couple of automobiles are occasionally to be seen. 

 The aspect of the town suggests the activity of a 

 new frontier place where everybody is busy. At 

 one end the long street loses itself in the broad Athi 

 Plains, at the other it climbs up over some low hills 

 and enters the residence district on higher ground. 

 Here the hills are generously covered with a strag- 

 gly growth of tall, ungraceful trees, among which, 



