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

to the very edge of virgin forest lust as in England
the meadow to the edge Of the covert. The
effect is to mako the landscape surprisingly homeke
1t IS bike travelling through series of gigantic parks
where the hand of man has for hundreds of years
shall
Toward the west great plains are visible in misty
appartiou through riffs in the plateau At length we
arrive at the summit OF the cscarpment aud stop
luncheon by an indicator which registers $500 feet
above tho sea level: Southwark rises hill perhaps
500 feet above from the top of which the waters
of the great lake be SEEN like the waters of
distant ocean.
The eliminating Point of Roosevet's Journey.
Geographically we have now reached the eliminating
Way home we 6aye only to descend, guided by the
force Of gravity first swiftly along The railroad to
Nile to the Mediterranean The lofty tabelands of
East Africa, with their. crisp. chill air and English
regrets-and the traveller will sight upon a middle
world spread at level Of about 1000 feet in Which
Downward then at thirty miles hour, along the side
across thinspun iron bridges, through whose girdeTs
glanGes down at torrents flashing far below on
Within hour the temperature has sensbly altered.
An overeoat is no longer necessary. even if you ride
warm and damp with the steamy heat of the tropics.
The freshness has gone of the air and in its place
50 P s Se
In order to AVOID Td. hot night on N the lake shore
forty miles from Ksmu, and rather than thou;
be all the S face
OF the Mau Escarpment burst upon us. Even after
ishcd by its fury For nearly two hours the thunder
crashed and roared in tremendous pcas-
Like water dung from some high crag
The lightning fell with Jag
A river steep and wide,
while the rain dashed down in sheets of water,
single gust of which would drench You to the skin.
But train is effective shelter. We dine
fortabv in the midst of the tempest and afterward
in cooler atmosphere look up toward repontant
stars and a tearstalned sky
The End of the Railway
At dawn at Kisumu. There is a stir of men,
crowded platform, soldiers in order, groups OF In
dian traders hundreds of Kavirondo natives IN their
fullest undress bunting and ntroductions Largo white
lie alongside the etty and beyond these the
waters of the lake gleam their broad welcome to the
sunrise.
Kisumu, Fort Florence it is sometimes called
is the western terminus of the Uganda railway and the
chief port Lake Victoria. 1t possesses what am
told is tho highest dockyard the world and is the
place at which all the steamers plying ON the
lake have been put together,
The station (or town. itself is pretty. Its trim
houses shady trees backed against the hills, over
look the wide eXpanse of Kavlrondo bay and ITS en-
crcling promontories Unluckily, it is unheaithy Tor
the climate is depressing and the sewage aecumuates
In the tideless and shallow inlet.
The Kavirondo tribe the greatest III THIS part OF
the country had organized an imposing demonsfraton
In dense array they lined the road from the railroad
station to the commissioners house, and our party
walked through their midst in II perfect hubbub of
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