New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER 20 1905

and It was 50 cold that had 20 wrap myself m my
overcoat Shortly after leaving Belfast latitude
6463 feet, where there heavy frost, we began
the steep descent OF deep canon and down the mar
row gorge of it's Travelled all day At ABOUT
three thousand feet We struck the hot country ana
naked natives,-many OF them beautiful hgures,
especially the men, and all the usual Jolly. laughing
lot. Here took on cargo typical Oh the County
rubber and copra or dried cOCOanut meat
I'VE reached Delagoa Bay at eight P NJ nese
coast towns terribly unhealthy, with lots o1 feVer
and MANY deaths Officials are never b1lleted mere
for more than two years at a time, and even that
time kills a large percentage Of them The next
morning was hot as the hinges IN the sun; but II
was cool IN the <hade--not more than ~eVe11ty-'Vo
degrees.
''They have the drollest tramway IN the world here
the track Is three feet wide. rails one inch Vide on
top and the like park bench stuck on
wheels, with a buggy top and push handle behind
like a peranbulator. You are pushed along by two
Kafir boys each OF whom runs on a single ran
without slip, at each step graSpllS the
rail between the great and second toe, and never
making a misstep. Thus You are showed along as
fast as ever rode a horse car. The streets are
loose sand three tram tracks down each street and
single wheeled vehicle IN the place except these
This is the port for Northern Rhodesia and traffic
IS so heavy thew are forced two trains week
Ten wears ago this bay was all Wild jungesand mile
in any direction inland from the pier 1t is still the
same as evidence two or three sloOpS hlled with
skins and heads at lions, rh1noS, hlppoS: ana all sorts
IF big antelope
When we left Mombasa for Nairobi, We also lef-
the humid air of the coast, and were up thousand
feet; in fact. ascending all the way to
Nairobi The country traversed IS beautiful every
where. Awakening at dawn, we were IN an open
tmbered parklike land, with grass deep as that of
meadow | was more than up on my elbow IL
the gray light of dawn when | four great. os-
triches standing line like file at attention, watch
ing glide by. They not more than nifty yards
from the train. As the sun was up We could
see wild game everywhere far as the eye could
reach the Athi plains were black with them for ten
miles on either side of the road The country south
of the track is preserved, hence their abundance
hereabouts almost the outskirts OF the town
Between sunrise and eleven O'Clock we must have
seen at least thirty thousand head including twelve
varieties and at one point another each OF
these species ostrich, gaelic Grant gaelic wilde
beest kongoni steenbok, giraffe lion. zebra ThOmp-
sons gaelic and waterbuCk Shooting from trains,
| should state, is prohibited and punished by heavy
fines.
At Nairobi there great gardens with solid
masses of flowers and trees with ripening mangOs
figs, pomegranates, granadillas, bananas, apples
and peaches they all do we'll here); and wild
eye and timothy stand thick and high as
in the best cultivated meadow. As for the tenn
perature it is never less than hundred and twenty
five degrees in the and rarely above siltynine
degrees in the shade