NEW AFRICA. 
IN BLACK AND WHITE. 
Having left the Roosevelt expedition in the hunters’ paradise of British 
East Africa, it seems a fitting opportunity to briefly retrace the route taken 
by the Uganda railroad, which is virtually fixing New Africa on the map of 
the world, and first describe the country through which it passes in “black.” 
The tribes of colored men seem now reconciled to the new order of things 
and are no longer to be considered as dense savages, but as considerably more 
than semi-civilized. 
THE WANYIKA. 
A few miles out from Mombasa commence the little villages of the Wan- 
yika—sometimes not more than a small collection of huts, surrounded by a 
high fence of trees, vines or thorny shrubbery. Such defenses are partly a 
remnant of the days when they were subject to the attacks of the fierce Masai 
warriors or the equally'merciless slave hunters; but they are still necessary as 
protections against lions and other flesh eaters. They raise vegetables and 
fruits on small tracts of land, or occasionally act as cattle herders, and are 
scattered with camps of railroad employes or squads of irregular infantry 
nearly to the Athi plains. Their appearance bespeaks considerable Arabian 
blood. 
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