The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-25

Tho aspect of Nlombasa as she rises
rom the sea ard clothes herself with
,orm aud cclo- ai tho swift approach
<lf the ship Is aLuriue and even dcI-
-ious. Bat 90 appreciate all these
BARNS :he traveller shoHid conc from
4hc North Ilr shou'd .co ;hc no; stones
90 Malta. baking and gIisteniEg on =
fPcl blue Mediterranean JIG shound
: 'tIt the islard of Cyprus before the
Htujnn rairs lrHye revived the spll.
-|hcn the Messau,ia plain i onc broad
Wilderness of dust. when every trec--bo
IT only thorn hnsb-is an heirloom.
r4nd every drop of water is a Jewel. Hc
IfbOuld walk for two hours al midday
/ n the streets Of Port Said. lie shoud
bread tho long red furrow of the SueZ
anal aud swelIcr through the trough
~ the Red sea He should pass q day
+ mong the cindcrS %; Adc1. sud week
4 .',mong the scorcboi rocks and stones
~ Northern Somaliland; and then. af
.lfr five days OF open sea. his eve and
: lind will be prepared 10 .a!utc with
( ,felings Of grateful delight these shores
: e vivid and eZuberaut grcan. On
VERY side Is vegetation. moist, tumultu
-'ns, aud varied. Great trees. clad in
1. -,ense foliage. sbToudsd in "Teepers,
Infringing from beds Of vcrdgre. thrust
themselves through the underground:
E,alms laced together by Towering
.railers; every Kind OF tropical plant
1bat lives by rain aud sunshine: high
5syiug gga IS. brilliant patches OF pur'
.tIe bougainS Illea. aud IN the midst,
,'otted about. scarcely keeping their
4 eads above the fertile flood ot nature.
r.he red-roofed houses Of the town aud
FORT of Momoasa.
~ The vessel follows channel twist
rj-1g away between high bluffs. aud finds
= secure anchorage. lsnd-lockcd. IN
: ,rty feet OF water at stone 5 throw
rom the shore. Here 1vc are arrived
- the gate of British East Africa; and
--1ore, at the outlet and dcbouchmont
III all the trade of all the countries that
10 the Victoria and Albert lakes and
Z "a head.waters Of the Nile. Along the
= Ter now being built at l[ihnd!ni. the
], arbor of Mombasa island must flow.
tt any rate for many wears. the main
! z,trearn OF East and Central African
b f,,nmerce Whatever may be the pro.
ftnce which civilized government ard
(aferprise Will draw from the enormous
8 'tsrritories between Southern AbyssiDia
Ind Lake Tsngauyika. between Lake
Epdolf and RuenZorl. as Tar west as
tle head-streams Of the Congo. as FAR
&<orth as the Lado enciave; whatever
<fiav be the needs and demand. OF the
.rtuInerous populations comprised within
those limits. il is along the unprctcn-
,4fous ietty OF Kilindlni that the whole
-rfaffic must pass.
n Worlds Most Wonderful Railway.
~ For Kilindini Cor Mombasa, as | may
e,e permitted 10 call it) is the starting
q .oint of one Of the most romantic and
r,lcst wonderful railways IN the world.
he two iron streaks of rail that wind
t'way among the hills and foliage or
rtTombasa island do not break their
{lnooth monotony until. after piercing
f<1uatorial forests. stretching across inn
Hleuse prairics. and climbing almost 20
lf1e level OF the European sncw-line,
<<1ey pause-and that only for "A time
2 1>pon the edges Of the Great lake. And
q xi1ns Is made sure, swift road along
'1+hicb the white man and all that he
,<frings with him. for good or III, may
= <fenetrate into the heart of Africa as
[|asily and safely as he may travel from
'<l.ondon to Vienna.
~ Short has been the life. many the
:, I,,icissitudes, OF the Uganda railway.
The adventurous enterprise of Lib
f<ra7 government, il was soon exposed.
J .isowued. TO the mereilcss criticism of
,c<z parents. Adopted as n cherished
Ioundling by the Conservative party.
" almost perisbed from mismanagement
"a their hands. Nearly ten thousand
</ouuds mile were expended upon its
q instruction; and so eager were all par
y les 70 be done with IL and its e1psnse
y hat, instead OF pursuing its proper
nd natural route across the plateau
- the deep waters of Port Victoria.
~ fell by the way into the shallow gulf
~ Kayirondo, lucky to get so far.