Up to this point the scenery is very interesting, but the most noticeable feature is the vast quantities of game—antelope, zebra, buffalo, wildebeeste, ostrich, rhinos, and jackals. Lions, though not visible, abound. This part of the Protectorate of East Africa being a game preserve, the animals are as tame as cattle in England, and stand within ten or twenty yards of the train, the driver having to constantly whistle them off the track.
After Nairobi we made slower progress. For several miles the gradient was so steep that natives, decked in red earth and butter, goat-skins and iron ornaments, easily ran behind the train and caught it up, hanging on to the guard's van, just as boys do on four-wheelers at home. This part of the world advances but slowly, though Nairobi itself has a big European population, with highly respectable houses and stores.
A mission has been commenced at Kikuyu,
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