The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
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i For the first one hundred miles the climb is almost steady. and We are about one-third of a mile above the sea when we reach the station at Vol. Here the country is more open: and far off in the distance one can see a patch of snow floating like a cloud. That patch is the mountain of Kilimanjaro and it's top is more than nineteen thousand feet above the sea. It is about the highest noun tain on the continent, and still, is not rnreh h'~her thn~ WoT'~t Ko7ia, that cher giant of Britizh East Africa which rlses out of the pIateau some ulstalIce north of Nairobi.
 After the jungle of the coast line, the country becomes comparatively open; and it soon begins to look like parts of Amer lea where the woods have been cut away and the brush allowed to grow up in the fields Here the land is carpeted with grass about a foot or so high, and thou sands of square miles of such grass are going to waste I saw no stock to speak of, and at that place but little wild game. Without knowing anything about the tsetse fly and other cattle pests. I should say that the pastures just back of the coast might feed many thousand cattle and hogs. The soil seems rich. It is a fat clay of the color of well burnt brick which turns everything red. This dust filled our car, it coated our faces, and erept through our clothes. When we attempted to wash the water soon be- came bright vermillion, and the towels upon which we dried were brick red. My pillow, after riding all night through such dust, hadH changed from white to terra-cotta; and there was a Venetian red spot where my head had laid.
 Among the Antelopes and Zebras.
 It is a strange thing to go to sleep in &l,1 AIc nd fn at1ral Ira ind iDQ a travelling over high, treeless country, with game by the thousand gambling along the car tracks. We awoke on the Kapiti plains, which are about mile above the sea, and 23S miles from Mom basa. These plains are of black sandy loam and they are covered with thick grass They look much like Iowa, Kan sas or Nebraska did when the railroads were first built through them and when the buffaloes galloped along with the cars. The same conditions prevail here, save that the game is of a half-dozen big kinds, and most of it is such as you can see only in our geological gardens at home. According to law no shooting may be done for a mile on each side of the track, and the road has become a great game preserve two miles in width and about 600 miles long. The animals seem to know that they are safe when they are near the railroad and most of them
 
 in the fields
 Let me give you some notes which I made with these wild animals on all sides of me. l copy: These Kapiti plains are flat and I am riding through vast herds of antelopes and zebras. Some of them are within a pistol shot of the cars. There are fifty odd zebras feeding on the grass not 100 feet away. Their black and white stripes shine in the sunlight and they are round, plnmp and beautiful. They raise their heads as the train goes by and then continue their grazing. Fur ther on we see antelopes, some as big as a two-year-old calf, and others the size of a goat. The little ones have horns almost as long as their bodies. There is one variety which has a white patch on it's trump. The antelope looks as though it had a baby's bib tied to it's stubby tail or had been splashed with a white wash brush. Many of the antelopes are yellow, or fawn colored and some of the smaller ones are beautifully striped.
 Wild Gnus and Ostriches.
 Among the most curious animals to be seen are the gnus As I write this there are some galloping along with the train. They are great beasts as big as a moose, with the horns of a COW and the mane and tail of a horse. They are sometimes called wilde-beaste; they make very good hunting.
 But look, there are some ostriches. The flock contains a dozen or more birds which stand like Interrogation points away off there on the plain They turn toward the cars as we approach and then spread their wings and skim away