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 may 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 with luxuriant forests of 
juniper and other evergreens, or penetrates into narrow silent 
valleys to reach at last the summit of the heights which form 
the eastern cliff of the Rift Valley, that vast entrenchment 
which winds through high plateaux between Lakes Rukwa and 
Nyassa to the south-west, and the Gidfs of Tajurra and of Aden 
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