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THE UGANDA RAILWAY 
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Changamwe or Mazeras, fruit is usually to be bought, 
and we will lay in a supply of mangoes, bananas, 
and oranges. A stop is made about 2 p.m. for 
luncheon, but on the whole it is better to have a 
well-stocked luncheon basket, in sampling the contents 
of which much time and provender may be profitably 
consumed. After twenty miles the dull uninteresting 
Taru desert is entered on, and affords a period 
admirably suited to slumber which we will indulge 
in up to Maungu. Here, as it is getting cool, we 
sit up and take notice, searching the bush country for 
a sight of lesser Kudu, oryx or vulturine guinea-fowl. 
At certain seasons most admirable sport is to be 
obtained here; which fact the railway officials, 
with considerable wisdom, kept to themselves as 
long as possible. About 7 o’clock the train reached 
Voi and dinner. The fare is clean and ample, if 
not wonderfully appetising. The consumption of 
much beer is to be recommended. As an aid to 
slumber it is not to be surpassed. There are several 
mosquitos at Voi, and as they are nearly all carriers 
of malaria, a dose of quinine will not come amiss. 
While at dinner, our boys will have made up our 
beds. If there are only two of us in the carriage 
all is well, but if three a little tact is needed 
to acquire the bed on the single side, leaving one’s 
companions to sleep one over the other on the seat 
and the bunk that lets down above it from the roof. 
Make no mistake now in piling on rugs, as every hour 
will bring a lower temperature, and the bracing 
morning will be very different from the moist heat of 
yesterday. Two or three years ago, on waking up 
and glancing in a looking glass, one was faced with a 
brick-red face, and one’s hair contained either a couple 
