The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-22
RANRnAD
|. N BRITISH AFRICA
SCENES OF ROOSEVELT TRIP
TAKES ON WONDERFUL BEAU.
TY NEXT MONTH. RAILROAD
TRAVERSE RICH BELT.

British East Africt-that part of
the Dark Continent in which former
President Roosevelt with the Smith
sonian African Expedition will hunt
| for wild animals in the interest of
Iscience for the next six months before
pushing northward to the Mediter-
ranean tidewater-takes on it's great
lest charm with the coming Of spring
land will tender a rare tropical well
come when the party disembarks in
the latter part Of April.
The Roosevelt party will make its
way through country wonderful in
its moods and phases, strange COM
mingling of widest jungle and strip
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 definite
| ly determined, for though game
abounds plentifully, it shifts constant
~, changing it's locality because of
drouth or scarcity of food. Enough
has been learned of Mr. Roosevelt's
itinerary in the African wilds practi-
cally to trace today his course in the
six months hunt along the Uganda
railway.
| On April 81, on the steamer Admi-
raj, of the German East African Line,
Mr.. Roosevelt and party will reach
Mombassa, a squat island city, the
largest seaport of British East Afri-
ca, basking in hot, tropical sun, it's
Moorish walls rejecting the light and
contrasting brilliantly with the state
ly palms and the gold mohur tree,
with its rare red blossoms. Nesting
in this tropical luxuriance are the Eu-
ropean bungalows, rnative villages.
Mombassa has two hotels. and in the
public gardens stands a statue of Sir
William Mackinnon, one of the great
est benefactors of East Africa
Leaving Mombassa, the Uganda
Railway runs past Kilindini and dips
down to Salisbury bridge, fine via
duet 100 feet feet long, connecting
the island of Mombassa with the
mainland, and then begins the steep
climb to the small station of Chan
gamwe. The first leg into the will
derness will be made by the Roose-
welt hunters by train to Machakos,
some two hundred miles from Nom
bassa, where Mr.. Roosevelt will visit
for fortnight with Fir Alfred Pease,
who has hunted with him in America
Sir Alfred lives twenty miles from
the railroad.
Fruit vendors swarm about the
train at Changamwe selling the prod
uce of the plantations, with which the
country is thickly covered. Here
also is obtained a rare views of the
arms of the sea that enfold Mombas-
sa Port Reitz, stretching three
miles inland from Klindini, looks like
a beautiful lake, with it's verdure
clad banks and the Shimba hills in
the background The ascent is sharp
and, though the distance is still
short from the coast, the traveller
can observe game from the car win
jows. At Vol, which is 1900 feet
above sea level, the American party
will have an opportunity to see
Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the high
est peaks in Africa, rearing it's
mighty crest 10000 feet into the
clouds. This huge loaf mountain,
clothed in eternal snow, will not be
visited by the Roosevelt party unless
the present plans are changed.
The jungle railway then passes
through undulating and fairly open
country until the train reaches Tsavo
station, on the banks of the pretty
Tsavo River. A peaceful place it,
will be found, but its memories are
sinister and terrible to the engineer
who built the Uganda Railway. No
less than six hundreds lives were lost
in the building of the Uganda road