MEETING COLONEL ROOSEVELT 129 



Surrey. One might easily imagine oneself in a 

 great private estate where landscape gardeners had 

 worked for years. 



At night the cold was keen and four blankets 

 were necessary the night we camped two miles from 

 the equator. In the day the sun was hot in the mid- 

 day hours, but never unpleasantly so. After two 





One of the Transport Wagons 



days of marching through forests and across great 

 grassy folds in the earth we reached Eldoma Ra- 

 vine, a subcommissioner's boma that looks for all 

 the world like a mountain health resort. From the 

 hill upon which the station is situated one may look 

 across the Great Rift Valley, two thousand feet be- 

 low, and stretching away for miles across, like a 

 Grand Canon of Arizona without any mountains 

 in it. Strong stone walls protect the white resi- 



