New Britain herald., 1924-01-11
PLAN NEW RAILROAD
 INTO MONKEY-LAND
Proposed Extension Will Link
 MOmbasa With the Nile

Washington, U. I., Jan. lI.- remote but exceptionally importar bit of railroad building is the propos
 ed extension of the Kenya Colon line into Uganda, which will lin Mombasa with the Nile" says bu letin from the Washington, D. c headquarters of the National Geo praphic Society.
 Pushing the line 75 miles beyon its present terminus at Turbo wi open to coastal travellers one of tn most diverse regions of the world from a geographic and science stand point.
 "The existing railroad gives ampl promise of what lies beyond. Whel he entered Africa for his famous liol rode over this stretch on lossmotiy' cowcatcher and when he gave hi first lecture before the National Geo graphic society after his return h. said really doubt if there is rail road trip in the world as well wortf taking as that up to the little Brit ish East African capital of Nairobi.'
 TWO Nalurdl NOuucTS.
 From the terminus of the contem plated extension, at Jinja, the passen, ger some day will emerge to view two of the worlds notable natura Victoria Nyanza, to the south, and in the northern back ground the giant Mount Elgon, with it's crater ten miles across and its jagged rim rising to 14.oo0 feet.
 "Jinja is located on the marvellous ly beautiful gulf through which the waters pour from the mighty lake over Ripon Falls and enter upon the cascaded and swirling course of the Victoria Nile.
 These are only two of Uganda s physical aspects which range from snow-capped mountains. some yelled in heavy msts, to arid areas where rain has not fallen for periods of two years.
 Tn the Rift Valley is curious people who are guiltless of clothes but extremely painstaking of their hair. It is most unwomanly for a suk woman to have any hair on her
 
 hair grow and upon fathers death his hair is divided among his sons. Each son weaves his into sort of re- ccptacle in which he places his snuff box. ornaments and other valuable trinkets.
 Remnants of Stone Age.
 sir Harry Johnston tells of an- other tribe, the Andorobo, who wan der among dense forests and game haunted wildernesses. He says These Andorobo reproduce in most strik- ing manner the life which we may suppose to have been led by our far away ancestors in the earliets Stone Ages. They lead. in fact, very much the life that the most primitive types of man led in Great Britain and France in the far-back days of big animals, possibly before the coming of the glacial periods.
 They live entirely by the chase often consuming the flesh of birds and beasts uncooked Though they among the game of the province, they are picturesque feature when en- 
 Joseph Thomson. founder of Brit ish East Africa which now is Kenya, Is famous for never having fired at a native. He first penetrated Nasal land where the reality approaches kipling's fantastic lines:
 This is the sorrowful story.
 Told when the twilight fails, And the monkeys walk together,
 Holding each others tails. Sir Harry Johnston's Masai-land | picture follows:
 A Fairy-Land Area.
 Their towns arc surrounded by belts of tall trees, mainly acacias, ] come of which must be considerably Jyer hundred feet in height, with green boughs and trunks and ever present flaky films of pinnated foli- lge. In the rainy time of the year hese trees are loaded with tiny gold n balls of flowers. like tassels of loss silk, which exhale a most deli .ious perfume of honey. In the ,lains between the villages Crews ebra and a few oryz antelopes scam- Ter about while golden and black ackals hunt for small prey in broad ayllght, with constant whimpering. Enormous baboons sit In the ranches of the huge trees ready to file the natice crops at the least lack f vigilance on the part Of the boy Large herds of cattle and roops of isabella colored donkeys 0 out in the morning to graze, and eturn through a faint cloud Of dust, yhich is turned golden by the set Ing of the sun in the mellow evening, he cattle lowing and occasionally , Ighting, the asses kicking, plunging ] nd hifinU one anofher" F.