The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

shudder. but I should certainly recommend fine in.
tending Muter in East Africa to strap revolver on
his thigh in case of accidents. ''Yom do not want it
often as the American observed, "but when you
We passed Jolly morning riding after these brutes
and and shooting few Gazella Grant, and Gazella Thom
iamliarly called, and in looking for Gland in the
intervals. At the end of Lake Elmcntcita, beauti-
tuI sheet OF water nnhappiiy brackish, feast had
been prepared, TO which number of gentlemen from
Lord DelamGrc' estates and tho surrounding farms
Oad been lddcu long array of hocks and herds
was marshacd on both sides of The track in due order
Trob d. hai bred three pure
would have excited the keenest interest in any traveller
I, We made our way TO excellent luncheon which.
Go sure was not unacc9mpanled by the usual discus
sion on East African politics.
Charged by Monstrous Pig
il late in the afternoon when We started back
TO The train, Which lay eight miles off siding.
On the way VIC fell in with fierce and mon
stTous pig who led us nice dance through bush and
As he emerged into patch of comparatively smooth,
my pony to her top speed and was Just considering
how best to do the decd when without The slightest
pricked the pig turned sharp round and sprang me-
as if he were leopard; Luckily, my spear got in
stiff for week, drove deep into his head and neck
before it broke so that he was glad to sheer off with
eighteen inches of 1T sticking in him. and after dash
at my companions he took refuge in deep hole from
"eh no s 4qsSmsnt 4SGs nd % T insults fo"d draw nd
I fourth and it was nearly dark before
coach they calmly told me that six lions had walked
the line qaurter of mile away and quarter
of an hour before settler, who bad been to lunch
ut Elmentea, loading IL hastily borrowed re-
volver before starting his homeward ride to Na5uu
and as | gave HIM some cartridges I reelected that,
whatever may be the shortcomings of East Africa the
absence Of interesting and varied fauna is GER
tanly not among them.
Next day train is climbing through dense and
beautiful forests TO the summit Of Mau Escarpmcnt
Admiration of the wealth and spendor Of the cafv
kingdom mingled with something very like awe
at its aggressive fertility. The great overhang
the line. The creepers trail down the robinp
the red soil with cloaks of flowers and foliage The
cmbaptmeut already covered Every clearing is
dansely overgrown with snuous plants
But for the ceaseless with which the whole line
is scraped aud wecdcd it would soon become i'm
passabe. AS 1t u.s. the long fingers of the cncroach
ing forest everywhere stretching out envouslv
toward the bright rails Neglect the Uganda railway
for year and it would take expedition to dis
cover where it had run.
Trip Through the Jungle.
At Nyoro station nearly 900 natives were at work
cutting timber for the railway, which is entirely de-
young English gentleman, who was described to me as
contracts, had taken the trobule path through
the forest loop of the line in order that
might see what it like inside Through this Ieafy
tunnel, about mile and half long, we all accordingly
diyed.
There nothing sinister in the aspect Of this
forest for all its density and confusion. The great
giants lowered up magnincently to a hundred and
fifty feet. Then the ordinary forest trees much