Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . ed the whole island so completely thatit might now be mistaken for a well-plannedbotanical garden with substantial exhibitionbuildings. All honour to the men who have labouredand suffered and died, some of them, to makethis reception-room to our British East Africawhat it is, the daintiest imaginable little coralisland, with a cathedral, a newspaper, a court-house, hotels, roads, tram-line, and railwaystation all its own! Indeed, there will befound every requirement for a growing andvery much alive little city—every requirementbut one. How pitiable it is that al
Through Uganda to Mount Elgon . ed the whole island so completely thatit might now be mistaken for a well-plannedbotanical garden with substantial exhibitionbuildings. All honour to the men who have labouredand suffered and died, some of them, to makethis reception-room to our British East Africawhat it is, the daintiest imaginable little coralisland, with a cathedral, a newspaper, a court-house, hotels, roads, tram-line, and railwaystation all its own! Indeed, there will befound every requirement for a growing andvery much alive little city—every requirementbut one. How pitiable it is that almost the only flagthe natives see on ships that steam into thatmajestic harbour of Kilindini is the French orGerman! Surely such a promising bit of ourEmpire should be linked more closely with thehomeland ; and perhaps at no distant date itwill be done by a subsidised line of Britishsteamers. Mombasa, as the port of East Africa, is linkedto the interior by ties other than the bridgewhich carries the railway. She sets the pace. TESO HUNTERS FROM THE The Status of Slavery 31 for the hinterland, and woe betide those menwho have presumed to settle inland if Mom-basa is neglected. Yea, woe betide the wholecountry and the Government hopes if theKilindini harbour is not developed at anearly date! Not Mombasa alone, but all EastAfrica, is waiting for a wharf with capaciousgo-downs and offices. Mombasa must still goahead for the sake of the interior, and itshould be possible for every kind of inquiryto be dealt with the moment a steamerarrives. There is time for a glance at the nativetown, with its low, square huts thatched withpalm-leaves, ribs, or mats, to salute thelittle, laughing, fat watoto (children), and tosee what Mohammedanism and civilisation isdoing for the recently freed slaves of ourEmpire. Perhaps it will be news to many that thelegal status of slavery in the strip of EastAfrica, running ten miles deep, and whichreally belongs to the Sultan of Zanzibar, wa
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