MEETING COLONEL ROOSEVELT 
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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 borria 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- 
