The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-01-01

ter thar ours. The Nile valley should
also furnish some good points on IT,
rigatiOn for our western farmers, and
a study of the SueZ canal in the light
of our big ditch at Panama Will be in
teresting. This Egyptian canal was
built within q few years, end r. 80
been profitable from the sfaTC: ror
ten years it has paid or the average
more than $16,O0O,OO m
dividends, and as it is now too small
to accommodate the traffic an addl-
tional canal viii be built.
Letters From Nubia.
At this writing the extent of my
travels in Nubia cannot be outlined. |
shall so up the Nile by rail and steam
boat to Khartoum and Omdurman,
where the mahdi reigned and ma
possibly make my way thence on into
AbySSinia. It is not probable that 1
NAV go on to Uganda and the African
lakes by wa Of the Nile, although
| may do 50. The region there IS un-
through it is on foot, so that it would
necessitate many weeks of hard travel.
I shall probably take advantage OF the
boats on the White and Blue Nile to
visit the upper Soudan, and will then
return to Berber, near where the Black
Nile joins the Nile proper and from
there cross the Arabian desert to the
Red sea. The British have been
building a railroad through that re-
gion, and it was to have been COM
pieted only last year.
The Cape to Cairo Railroad.
Much of my travels IN eastern Africa
will be long the route of the Cape to
Cairo railroad. | shall go over its
northern section from Cairo TO AS
souan and will De again upon it from
Wady Halfa to Khartoum. Will be
on that route while in Uganda, and
will travel over something like fiji
teen hundred miles of the southern
portion of it in going from the Fails
Of the ZaInbesi through BulaWayo TO
Cape Town. I have just received let
terS from London saying that the road
has been extended nOrthWard from the
Zambesi for a distance of about three
hundred miles. and that | shall be
able to so by it to h very heart OF
the widest parts of Central Africa. 1t
is now being pushed onward at the
rate of a mile a day. and 1t Will soon
reach Lake T~anganyika. That lake IS
four hundred miles long and is deep
all the way. It's upper end IS not q
great distance from Lake Victoria,
and for a time at least travellers Will
go to T~anganyika and thence by
steamer up to the end of that lake
from where another strip of road Will
connect them with Lake Victoria
FROM Lake NlcEO11d lllS IISl -
of railroad will probably be built only
to G~ondokora on the Nile, q distance
of a thousand miles or so from khaf-
toum, where small steamers will con
meet them with the railway system OF
Egypt.
The Great African Lakes.
I expect to have some interesting
letters from the great fresh water
lakes of eastern Africa. These we
with our great lakes in size and sur
pass them in beauty. They are sur
rounded by mighty mountains.
shal see Mount k~ilinlanJaro ano
Mount Kenia on my way to Lake We
toria. Mount Kilirnanjaro is 10000
feet high and is the tallest Of the A1rl-
can mountains. Lake Victoria IS the
largest of the African lakes. II i
said to be bigger han Lake superior
It lies about as far inland from the
indian ocean as Cleveland is distan'
from the Atlantic, and it is now ac'
cesible by q railroad which passe.
through a land Of big game. One see:
herds Of zebras and giraffes from tn
car windows, and instances have beer
known of lions coming into the u
man cars at night when the train wa
sidetracked and yanking h passen
gers out of the lower berths. Hippo