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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, 
