Western field . places and valleys is the fact that it seemsas if some one had been there when thecountry was laid out and said to the jun-gle, Thus far and no farther must youcome! for as a rule the jungle endsabruptly, and in many places were a personstanding in the jungle ten feet from an open-ing, they would never suspect the characterof the country so near at hand. We usually associate the meeting of jun-gle and plain with numerous bushes and rag-ged growth, but not so here; right up to thevery edge of the jungle is a thick carpet ofsoft grass. Certainly these edges are notstraight, but r
Western field . places and valleys is the fact that it seemsas if some one had been there when thecountry was laid out and said to the jun-gle, Thus far and no farther must youcome! for as a rule the jungle endsabruptly, and in many places were a personstanding in the jungle ten feet from an open-ing, they would never suspect the characterof the country so near at hand. We usually associate the meeting of jun-gle and plain with numerous bushes and rag-ged growth, but not so here; right up to thevery edge of the jungle is a thick carpet ofsoft grass. Certainly these edges are notstraight, but run in a zig-zag manner, and Ihave often followed a smooth grassy clear-ing a mile or more as it twisted around inthe forest; portions of it would be three orfour hundred feet wide, and again it wouldnarrow down to a mere path, eventually end-ing against an impenetrable wall of jungleor in a beautiful pasture containing manyacres. As we go up this ascent, many interestingviews of the Molo and Njoro plains will be. seen, and the geography of quite a stretchof country may be studied if the day is a lover of nature no more pleasing sightcould be found; lofty mountains may bemore awe-inspiring, and gigantic trees mayspeak of age, but this country seems tosoothe a person as no other scenery looking at lofty mountains or scenes ofthat character a person instinctively feelsthat nature worked hard to produce them,but here it seems nature rested and, whilelazily partaking of repose, incidentallyknocked together these forest-clad hills andmimosa-dotted plains, in order to see howmuch beauty could be thrown together withthe least effort. From Njoro, where the ascent commences,we have about forty miles to go beforereaching the summit. Mount Loudiani, thehighest point, is 10,000 feet above away on both sides are miles of vir-gin forest. As the descent begins, the char-acter of the country changes very little un-til the foothills along the Nandi plateauhave
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