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all kinds, as well as a fine region for bush buck, while on the wide grassy 
flats and the lower slopes of the hills are great flocks of sheep and 
goats, herded by the natives. 
GOVERNMENT BREEDING FARM NEAR NAIVASHA. 
At the government breeding farm, a few miles from Lake Naivasha, 
efforts are being made to cross the zebra with the horse or mule, in 
order to produce a hybrid which may both resist the diseases of the 
country and at the same time be easily tamed and be valuable as a beast 
of burden. This attempt to solve the horse problem in British East 
Africa has not met with as much success as the government’s efforts to 
improve the native hairy sheep and the humped African ox. The former 
has been so crossed with Sussex and Australian blood as to be trans¬ 
formed into a very respectable wool-bearing animal, while the native 
hump is disappearing, and the mixed ox is coming on the scene as a 
fair Shorthorn. 
NAKURU AND ITS CHARMING LAKE. 
Salty though it is to the taste, as are most of the bodies of water in 
this region, Lake Nakuru is charming both in the vegetable and animal 
life which it supports. A rich grass country surrounds it, which, as 
stated, is thickly settled by Boer farmers. Beyond, along the Mau Es¬ 
carpment, is one of the finest pieces of railroad engineering in East 
Africa, consisting of nearly three miles of viaducts, or twenty-seven 
separate iron bridges spanning beautiful valleys and foaming torrents. 
The really interesting part of the great engineering feat lies in the fact 
that it is really an American achievement—a demonstration of Amer¬ 
ican ingenuity, pluck and technical skill. 
FROM FORT TERNAN TO PORT FLORENCE. 
At the station called Fort Ternan the railroad has fairly cut through 
the Mau Escarpment, and thence to Port Florence, 'or Kisumu (the 
native village), carries one through a swampy but fertile country—the 
approach to Lake Victoria Nyanza and the region infested by the tsetse 
fly and devastated by the Sleeping Sickness; the country of the Nandi 
and the Kavirondo. Fort Ternan, which has been dubbed a “placeless 
