Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by TBroadwood JohnsonWith an introdby Buxton . Man-eater in a railway carriage—Kilimanjaro—Nairobi, a tintownship —Lifting the engine on—An extinct volcano—Kidong escarpment : descending the zigzags — An oddsupper—Travelling by goods —Stranded at railhead —Our first caravan—Strange tribes—Deluged on the road—Church service at Kisumu—How shall we cross the Nyanza? AFTER getting clear away from the town wesettled down to take stock of our surroundingsand make ourselves comfortable. Nowadays a journey by
Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State by TBroadwood JohnsonWith an introdby Buxton . Man-eater in a railway carriage—Kilimanjaro—Nairobi, a tintownship —Lifting the engine on—An extinct volcano—Kidong escarpment : descending the zigzags — An oddsupper—Travelling by goods —Stranded at railhead —Our first caravan—Strange tribes—Deluged on the road—Church service at Kisumu—How shall we cross the Nyanza? AFTER getting clear away from the town wesettled down to take stock of our surroundingsand make ourselves comfortable. Nowadays a journey by the Uganda Railway upto the Lake is so well organised that tourists goinground Africa, or travellers going further afield, orthose on the way home (like the members of theRoyal Association from their visit in igo6 to theVictoria Falls of the Zambesi), are not infrequentlydropped at Mombasa to await the next boat; theymay embark on the train for the three days runup to Kisumu, or even spend another couple of daysin crossing the Lake to Uganda, and may do sowith tolerable certainty of getting back again by the. MAP OF BRITISH EASTERX EQUATORIAL Protectorate includes tlie Kingdoms of Uganda, Unyoro, Toro, and Ankole, and the districts of Usoga, Acholi, &c. + Indicates a Mission tlic local tribes around Toro mentioned in the book, sec smaller Map, p. i lo. [To Jaa p. ? BY RAIL, TRAMP, AND CANOE 21 return train from Kisumu safely within the week,or even from Uganda in less than a no one then, with a strictly limited numberof days at his disposal, would have cared to riskhimself many miles out of Mombasa. The chancesof the engine going off the line too often, or a fallof rock across a cutting, or some other unforeseenmishap would have involved too much suspense topermit of pleasure. It was a period of transition, when the old caravanmarch—with its long, weary months of tramping,sometimes varied with spells of fever
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