Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ially near Nakuru station,four hundred and forty-nine miles from the coast,at about six thousand feet elevation. At Nakuruthe train stopped for our evening meal. There wasan excellent hotel supper for us near the station.An efficient French landlady and her husband pur-veyed. The way the good lady ordered her husbandabout made one feel the joy of civilization. Fifty miles from )\Iolo station is the beginningof the famous Uasi Ngishu plateau, the best grazingcountry in the Protectorate. Already a good manyfarms of five thousand acres have been taken byBoer immigrants. The highest station on the lineis Londiani, 7,410 feet above the sea. This is thepoint of departure for a remarkably fine stretch ofagricultural country in which lies the EldamaRavine, where in forty miles one passes from trop-ical ferns to all the products of the north temperatezone. Here the days are delightful and the eve-nings cool. The soil will grow anything, and rainskeep the earth fresh and green. At every station
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The Uganda Railway 111 we met crowds of aborigines, who never cease ad-miring the trains. The Ukamba tribe extends toNairobi; the Kikuyu and Masai occupy the highlands farther inland. The former cultivate maizeand bananas; the latter are warriors and shepherds. The third and last section of the railway is thefifty-mile stretch from Fort Teman to Port Flor-ence. This is the Nandi country, the home of themosquito and the tsetse fly. Where white mencannot live, Hindus farm the level plains. Thereare throughout the Protectorate great areas re-served for the natives. It is a green land of openfields and rising hills. As we approached Lake Victoria, we passedthrough the most interesting tribe of all — theWakavirondo, a nation that goes stark-naked.They are modest, however, and are reputed themost moral people of the whole continent of Af-rica. The central market of the Wakavirondo isat Kisumu, on the edge of the Lake. A line of boats, six hundred to eight hundredtons, connects at Port Flo

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