. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . s coral strand, and fringe of palms, and huge baobab-trees, as well as for the mysterious delights which laybehind. We cast anchor opposite the warehouses ofMombasa, and the whitewashed Portuguese fort and itsrust-brown cannons. Mombasa is an island, but within the land, beingencircled by a double estuary formed by some smallstreams. Wild rovers from Vasco da Gama downwardshave wrestled for this good harbour, but it was left forthe authorities of the Uganda Railway to discover thatthe southern or Kilindini Ch
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . s coral strand, and fringe of palms, and huge baobab-trees, as well as for the mysterious delights which laybehind. We cast anchor opposite the warehouses ofMombasa, and the whitewashed Portuguese fort and itsrust-brown cannons. Mombasa is an island, but within the land, beingencircled by a double estuary formed by some smallstreams. Wild rovers from Vasco da Gama downwardshave wrestled for this good harbour, but it was left forthe authorities of the Uganda Railway to discover thatthe southern or Kilindini Channel was the better road-stead of the two. The old order and the new are visibleon every hand. The steamers which month by monthbring the material for the new railway are jostled bynative dug-out canoes and Arab dhows. The latest invasion is from India, for the town ismainly peopled from Bombay. There has always beena trade between the eastern and western coasts of theIndian Ocean, and this has received an immense stimulusfrom the fact that the Uganda Railway is being constructed. 5<Ul ha BRITISH EAST AFRICA 3 by coolies, who are followed by a number of traders of theirown race. A small tramway two miles long connects the townof Mombasa with the railway terminus, which was thenat Kilindini on the opposite side of the island, and fora newly arrived tenderfoot it is very pleasant locomotionto be pushed in a covered trolly by a couple of nimbleSwahili boys past the banana-shambas, the palm-groves,and the giant baobab-trees, and through stretches oflong grass, among which bishop birds, like little ballsof orange plush, and yellow weaver-birds, play and flutterand weave their bag-like nests. Our preparations were so forward that we were able totake our places in the train the same night, and, sometime in the small hours, crossed the bridge to the main-land. When daylight grew we were traversing the Taru,or arid region of thorn-scrub, which has hitherto provedsuch a terrible orde
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