The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-03-26
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mfngling of widest jungle and a stril
of modern civilization-the Uganda
Railway. 1t is along the line of this
railroad, which penetrates the jungle
plains and mountains, that Mr.. Roose
welt and his party will seek the game
of the region for specimens for the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton. His route has not been definitely
determined, for though game abounds
plentifully, it shifts constantly, chang
ing it's location because of drouth OF
scarcity OF food. Enough has been
learned of Mr.. Roosevelt's itinery i'll
the African wilds practically to trace
to-day his course in the six months
hunt along the Uganda Railway.
On April 81, on the steamer Admir-
al, Of the German East African Line
Mr.. Roosevelt and party will reach
Mombasa, a squat island city, the lars
est seaport of British East Africa
basking in a hot tropical sun, it's Moor
ish walls rejecting the light and con
trasting brilliantly with the stately
palms and the gold mohur tree, with
its rare red blossoms. Nesting in
this tropical luxuriance are the Euro
pean bungalows, or native villages
Mombasa has two hotels, and in the
William Mackinnon one of the great
est ,benefactors of East Africa.
Leaving MOmbaSa, the Uganda Rail
way runs past Kilindini and dips down
10 Salisbury bridge, a fine viaduct
LOO feet long connecting the island
IF Mombasa with the mainland, and
hen begins the steep climb to the
small station of Changamwe. The
frst leg into the wilderness will be
made by the Roosevelt hunters by
rain to Machakos, some two hundred
allies from Mombasa, where Mr.: Roos
welt will visit for a fortnight with
sir Alfred Pease. who has hunted
With him in America. Sir Alfred lives
twenty miles from the railroad.
Fruit venders swarm about the train
at Changamwe selling the produce of
he plantations, with which the conn-
ry is thickly covered. Here also is
obtained a magnificent view of the
arms of the sea that enfold Mombasa
Port Reitz stretching three miles in
and from Kilindini looks like a beau
'iful lake, with its verdure clad banks
and the Shimba hills in the back
round. The ascent is sharp and tho
he distance is still short from the
coast, the traveller can observe game
from the car windows. AT Vol, which
s 1900 feet above sea level, the Am
erican party will have an opportunity
20 see Mount Kilimaniaro, one of the
highest peaks in Africa, rearing its
mighty crest 10000 feet into the
clouds. This huge sugar loaf noun
rain, clothed in eternal snow, will not
Se visited by the Roosevelt party IN
less the present plans are changed.
The jungle railway then passes thru
undulating and fairly open country IN
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peaceful place it will be found, but
Die to the engineer who built the
Uganda Railway. No less than six
hundred lives were lost in the bull |.
ing of the Uganda road by man eat
ing lions, and thirty natives We're kill
ID by two man eaters at Tsavo. This
oair of man eaters held up the build
ing of the railway for nearly six
weeks.
run of some fifty miles further,
through fairly open country, will find
the hunting party at Makindu, a little
over two hundred miles from Momba-
Sa, and over three thousand feet above
the level Of the sea. The expedition
will now be out of the tropical level
and the air is cooler and fresher
Nairobi, the capital of the British
East AiT4cd 1TOIocCOrdIe- so miles III
land from Mombasa, will be reached
in Nav, and here the expedition s
headquarters will be established for
the greater portion of the hunt. From
Nairobi short trips of from week to
three weeks will be made in various
direction in pursuit of suitable speci-
mems for the collection. It is from
this point that most of the hunting
trips will be made
October will find the party moving
inland to Port Florence, on Lake Vic
toria Nyanza, the end of the railway,
where a short stop will be made The
railway from Nairobi takes a sharp
ascent to the pi1nacIes of the Kihuyu
escarpment, where it is possible to
look down some 1000 feet into the
Great Rift Valley. Swinging down
ward. the railroad enters a country
changing from mills and forest to
grass land. Sheep farms and other
evidences of civilization meet the eye
of the traveller in the run to Nakuro,
f46 miles from Mombasa, which is in
the midst of pastoral country.
After a journey of another hundred
miles Mr.. Roosevelt's party will arrive
at Port Florence. A trip to Mount El
gon is planned, which is seventy-five
miles north of the railway terminus.
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