The sun., 1909-02-14
APRTCA'S GAME PRESERVE
ROOSEVEL7vS HUNTING GROUND
REACHED FROM MOABASA.
This IL city OF $4,000. with Only ao0
Europeans Miles Inland 10 the-
Hunting District-Not . Country In
which to 1--we the Strenuous life,

Africa and the port from which one starts
for the now much talked OF hunting
grounds Of the interior. ia described an
snowy white In its coral walled and
whitewashed Oriental architecture
10 stands out conspiouously against
the tropical foliage Of the northern and
eastern shores Of an island where tho
wooded promontory OF English Point
opposes Its coral ramparts to the surges
Of the Indian Ocean. says a writer In the
National Magazine. On the southeask
scarce a league away opens tho s!s1st
port Of Kilindini whose ship channel.
even deeper and less beset with reef
and shoal. leads into an anchorage un.
rivalled on the African coast, save by
the almost perfect Portuguese haven
OF Delsgoa Bay. ..sl.
Mombasa to-day has about 30 600 in.
habitants. some 200 of whom are white.
many OF them representing large mer-
/ osHtiie interests. besides resident oSaoiais
and army and navy attaches. The rest
OF the population is made up Of the dig
nifed, high bred Arabs and his congeners
OF mixed Blood the Arabs of the coast;
natives Of India. Parsee. Buddhist and
Mohammedan the lathy Sikh mercenary.
stout. heavy featured Sudanese; uni
formed Somali and lean, pallid, shifty
eyed Goanese mingle with the white gar
mented Swahilis and their women, pert.
free Of tongue, bare shouldered and
garmented in the most garish and bizarre
OF modern chintzes.
At Kilindini port is the centre Of most
Of that trade in ivory and hides which
with the collateral slave trade and labort
made Zanzibar great and Mombasa only
less powerful. To-day slavery has ceased
to exist legally and wherever the English
flag flies is actually ended.
The streets are no longer unsanitary
and noisome; the water supply has been
greatly improved and the hotels are per-
haps equal to the limited demand from .
European wayfarers. The stores are !
large and we'll supplied with everything,
that the merchant or traveller needs onl
his inland journeyings.
When one is getting ready to take the
field much must be done to prepare for /
actual caravan life and its vicisdtudea
The clothing must be stout and much
warmer than is usually supposed to be
necessary for African travelling, for as
one goes inland the eltituderapidly carries
the trav eller from the hot, low coast line
Of the equatorial zone up into the lower
temperature Of an almost Arctic cline.
Helmets for tropical suns, fezzes for
evening and cold days, rot proof canvas
tents end hsmmocks, light bedding and
extra heavy blank cts. presents for African
potentates end -Mericani' (oloth), beads,
copper wire, tools and trinkets with which
to buy food, medicines, ammunition, pre-
se-v ed foods end few luxuries such as
books stationery. scientific instruments.
must be left behind on the
chance OF getting it OF the line Of the rail-
way.
The train for Ugandsa nd way stations
IS drawn by IN American (Baldwin) engine
and starts from the city station near the
old fort. A first class ticket to p ort Flor
euce, 5sI miles away on the Victoria Ny
auzc, costs cents mile, second class
cents p mile and the third class, the Jim
Crow" cars. in which no white man may
tide. 1 cent mile. No native may ride In
he first and Sc cond class cars which are
and constructed to promote
'oolness and free circulation.
The railroad crosses the shadows that
separate Mombasa from the mainland,
over the lofty iron Salisbury Bridge, loo
eet long. At Changamwe, the first
tation out, one en- ters beautiful
well wooded with cocoanut
,alms. ambatch. haobabs, mangoes and
,ther woods. Some handsome planta-
ions owned by Indians lie along the
quite. and many picturesque Swahili
cottages and Wayganika villages are
een as we ascend the up grade to Mazeras
tation. nine miles out.
Here begins the so-called Desert OF,
Taru, which for ninety-four miles inter-
ar from being bare, for there are patches
Il iuiceless grass and thorny copses.
Here may be seen herds Of gazelles,,
ometimes from sixty to 200 together;
'erhaps a rhinoceros. a pack Of sneaking
ackals,, prowling hyena. a .stealthy.
nimals show little fear of the train. for
he high cost Of hunting license-about
numerous limitations as to the
lumber Of heads to be killed by any one
portsman greatly lessons the number OF
untes.
The Athi district and Kapiti plains.
bout $50 miles from Mombasa. form thal
reat British Protectorate game preserved
here Roosevelt will hunt. At Nairobfi
re the headquarters of the Uganda
ailway. with offices and large repair
hops.
n great many lnuan anu nAtlVo DhChH1
re employed and do good work They!
ave gift for iron working anyway and
sed to smelt and forge with the most
rimitive furnaces before the coming OF
utilization.
A thousand white men and 14,oO0 East
ndians and Africans live at. Nairobi-
here are modern hotels and handsomei
ungalows, tin rooted and brightly
ainted. Automobiles sweep through the
reefs English boys and girls and their
ders play at golf and tennis. the electriot
ght drives the prowling iackal and hyena.
} the borders Of the unlighted suburbs,
nd the location. $500 feet above the sea.
said to be especially healthy.
The tribes which were once so fierce
i've settled down quite calmly under
ritish rule. The greatest losses OF life
I'VE been caused by oarnivorous BEASTS,
'isonous insects and reptiles and still
ore by fatal diseases. For whatever
ay be said OF tho salubrity of this or
at section OF equatorial Afraica. few
hite men have resided and lived the
life therein and continued their
ork more than four or five years.
II man has any physical weakness
rica ia sure TO find it out. The list OF,
plorers, scientists and missionaries in,
ng and honorable. but for the most
rt it is a series Of obituaries. The use
qunine. not as remedy but as a pre-
ntive. seems to be a necessity in the
eater part of Africa. The men who
d the Uganda railway and built up its
atoms paid their part of that human
crifce Near TsayO station IA milea