CHAPTER II. 
FROM MOMBASA TO THE WILDERNESS. 
Old and New Mombasa—Its Romantic History—Enthusiastic Reception to Roosevelt—Trop¬ 
ical Scenery—The Desert and the Jungle—The Railroad from Mombasa to Nairobi, the 
Chicago of East Africa. 
W HEN Roosevelt first landed on African soil lie did not come to 
a new country. Old Mombasa, where he arrived April 31, is 
over 400 years old. He found it inhabited by over 60,000 peo¬ 
ple, half of whom African, natives, lithe, dignified worshippers of the 
prophet of Mecca, stout Soudanese, calm and dusky Hindoos, alert and 
WARFARE OF THE NATIVES ALONG THE UGANDA ROAD. 
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