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your windows and though, of course, it was not a 
strictly true assertion, it was plausible when uttered 
in view of such a splendid expanse of country—such a 
veritable map of Eastern Africa as might be seen from 
Kitimbiriu. The two snow-peaks of Kibo and Kima- 
wenzi rose above us to the north. Looking westward 
we might gaze over the whole belt of inhabited 
country as far as Macame, near the great western 
Fig. 29.—A View towards Macame. 
shoulder of Kilima-njaro, which stretches towards 
Meru. Many a forest-crowned hill intervened; and 
in the foreground the scenery was a bewildering maze 
of banana plantations in their glinting, vivid green, 
of maize-fields, of patches of red and freshly turned-up 
soil, and dark purple blots, which were isolated trees 
left standing in the cultivated land. Then there were 
the bare, sheep-cropped downs forming stretches of 
pale green colour, and the hill-sides clothed with 
