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Show i I'ort Relthz. stretching three miles inland in-land from Kllindini. looks like a beautiful' beau-tiful' lake, with lt6 verdure-clad banxa and the Shlmba hills m the back-prounJ. back-prounJ. The ascent is sharp and, though tlio distance Is still short rrom the coast, the traveller can observe gwmes from the car windows. At Vol. which is l.SOft feet above s?a level, the American party will have an opportunity to see Mount Kilimanjaro, on- of tho highest peaks In Africa, i earing its mighty chest 19,000 feet Into the clouds. This hugh sugar loat 1'ionutaln, clothed In eternal snow, will rot be visited by the Roosevelt party unless the prosent plans are changed. The jungle railway then passes through undulating and fairly open country until the train reaches Tsazo setion, on the banks of the pretty Teavo 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 hundred lives were loot in the building build-ing of the Uganda road by man-eatln-; lions, and thirty natives were killed by two man eaters at Tsavo. Thla fearful pair of man eaters held up .the building of the railway for noarly six weeks. A run of some fifty miles further, through fairly open country, will lind the hunting party at Maklndu, a, littl-i over two hundred miles from Mombasa, Mom-basa, and over three thousand feet above th level of tho sea. The expedition expe-dition will now be out of tho tropical level, and the air Is cooler and freshor. Nairobi, the capital of the British East Africa Protectorate, 326 miles inland from Mombasa, will be reached in May, and here the expedition's headquarters will be established lor the greater portion of the hunt From Nairobi short trips of from a week to three weeks will be made In various directions In pursuit of suitable specimens speci-mens for the collection. It is from this point that most of the hunting trips will be made. October will find the party moving inland to Port Florence, on Lake Victoria Vic-toria Nyanza. the end of the railway, where a short stop will be made. The railway from Nairobi take3 a sharp ascent to tho pinnacles of the Kihuyu escarpment, where It Is possible to look down some 2.000 feet into the Creat Rift valley. Swlnlng downward, down-ward, the railroad enters a country changing from Juils end forest to grass land. Sheep farms and other evidences of civilization meet the eyo of the traveller in the run to Nakuro, 44C miles from Mombasa, which la In the midst of a pastoral country. After a journey of another hundred miles Mr. Roosevelt's party will arrive ar-rive at Port Florence. A trip to Mount Elgon Is planned, which Is seventy-five seventy-five miles north of the railway terminus. term-inus. Two modern steel steamers, ot 500 tons burden, navigate Victoria Nyanza, and on one of these steamers the expedition will leave tome timo early In December for Entebbe, one hundred and fifty miles from Port. Florence. Entebbe Is the point of departure de-parture for travellers to Lake Albert, down the Congo to t3xe West Coast, or I down the Nile to Khartoum, and hero I the party will join a small caravan I which will head! north toward the Mediterranean. ALONG IE UGANDA RAILWAY First Leg Into the Wilderness Wilder-ness Will Be Made By Train British East Africa that part of the Dark Continent In which!" former President Presi-dent Roosevelt with the Smithsonian African Expedition will hunt for wild animals in the Interest of science for the next six months before pushing northward to the Mediterranean tidewater tide-water takes on its greatest charm with the coming of spring and will tenter a rare tropical welcome when the party disembarks in the latter part of April. The Roosevelt party will mako Its way. through a country wonderful in Its moods ajjd phases, a strange, commingling com-mingling of'wlldeet Jungle and a strip of modern civilization the Uganda railway. It is along the lino of this railroad, which penetrates tho Jungle, plains and mountains, that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt and his party will seek the game of the region for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. Washing-ton. His route has not been definitely determined, for though game abounds plentifully, it shifts constantly, changing chang-ing its locality because of drouth or scarcity of food. Enough has been learned of Mr. Roosevelt's itinerary in the African wilds practically to trace today his course In the six months' hunt along the Uganda railway. On April 21, on the steamer A.d roiral, of tho German East Atrtcau line, Mr. Roosevelt and party win reach Mombasa, a squat island city, the largest seaport of British East Attica, basking In a hot, tropical sun, its Moorish walls reflecting the light and contrasting brilliantly with the ttately palms and the gold mohur tree, with its rare red blossoms. Nestling In this tropical luxuiance are the European bungalows, or native tillages. Mombasa has two hotels, and in the public gardens stands a. statue of Sir William Macklnnon, one of the greatest benefactors of East Africa. , Leaving Mombasa, the Uganda railway rail-way runs past Kllindini and dips down to Sallsburry bridge, a line viaduct 1,700 feet long, connecting the island of Mombasa with the mainland, anri then begins the steep climb to the rjmall station of ChanpjRinye. Tho first leg into the wilderness will b9 made by the Roosevelt hunters by train to Machakos, some two hundred miles from Mombasa, where Mr. Roosevelt will visit for a fortnight with Sir Alfrod Pease, who has hunir ed with him in America. Sir Aired Uvea twenty mile.-? from the railroad Fruit venders swarm about the tram at Changamwe selling the produce of tho plantations, with which tne country is thickly covered. Here also Is obtained a magnificent view or the I arms of the sea that enfold Mombasa. I |
