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NEW AFRICA. 
name/’ is about forty miles from the terminus of the road and some 
thousand feet above it. This section of the line taps a level country of 
brilliant green dotted with small parks of flourishing trees. 
APPROACH TO LAKE—PORT FLORENCE. 
Realizing that Lake Victoria Nyanza is the greatest of the African 
lakes and, next to Lake Superior, in the United States, the largest body 
of fresh water in the world, Mr. Roosevelt shared the common dis¬ 
appointment of all travelers who approach it from the east for the first 
time. The country is so flat around Gulf Kavirondo that all that can 
be seen is an unimpressive arm of dirty brown water thrust out into the 
landscape—no vast expanse of blue waters stretching to the horizon, 
with appropriate settings of rocky cliffs or smiling shores. But the train 
soon runs onto the pier at Port Florence, which is little more than a 
transfer station from the railroad to the steamers which ply across the 
