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 (14782950195)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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ay 5,1906, when 3.91 inches fell. After a short walk along the shore, we climb apathway festooned with lovely, creeping flowers,and through an avenue of fire-trees, whose redblossoms were flashing out like flames. We founda little railroad running three miles from Kilindinito Mombasa, across the coral island on which bothtowns are built. The tracks of this toy-railwayare about two feet wide, and upon it runs a trolleycalled a ghary. The car consists of a small plat-form, about five feet square, on which seats areerected, with an awning over the top, and motivepower is supplied by two natives who run at theback of the car and push it along. Four peoplecan ride on one car, two on each seat, back to back.Wherever there is a down grade, the human motorshop on the rear of the car and coast with it; andthe speed with which you get over the ground bythis means is remarkable. The tracks are run to allthe principal houses in the suburbs, and everybodyof importance has his own private ghary and
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Mombasa 83 maintains ghary-boys, who are decorated withhis family colours in fancy turbans, with sashes, overlong, white gowns. There is also a broad highway running fromKilindini into the main town of Mombasa; andhere we begin to see the real African men andwomen. The women are all dressed in the highlycoloured checked or striped sheeting, called Amer-icani. This cotton cloth they drape gracefullyaround their bodies from the armpits to the heels;a second piece, highly decorated, is thrown artis-tically around their shoulders and sometimes coverstheir heads. Many of the girls are covered with jewelry ofvarious kinds, mostly brass, iron and copper wire.Some also carry ordinary umbrellas. The men arethe sturdy fellows whose ancestors accompaniedLivingstone and Stanley on their expeditions; andit is surprising to see the enormous loads they cancarry and the amount of work that they can do.When at work they wear nothing but a small bitof cloth tied around the loins, and their perspiringbo