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National Geographic : 1925 Feb
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CAIRO TO CAPE TOWN, OVERLAND These convict gangs ' cut most of the soft dirt roads through the jungle, and so open up the country to civilization. African natives find it impossible to do any kind of work ex- " cept with an accom- paniment of noise. When our boat, the ' Clement Hill, arrived we were greatly 4 J N amused at a sight on the docks. While we were waiting for the gangplank to be let down, a group of blacks began beating improvised d r u m s, t shouting and leaping to the music. "Who are these na tives and what are they doing?" I asked a white man. "These are the ship's stevedores. They al ways dance to get themselves excited, so they can work." Here we said good bye to the Count. We crossed direct to Kisumu in some thing less than 24 A DRUMMER BOY OF' hours. All the avail- In some African villages there are thre able cabins were filled is called "Bugendanwe." Nexttoitisp ith , o a its wife. The third, still smaller, is its pri S thofficials drums are hollowed pieces of wood with o and their wives, who were going home on leave, bound for the Steamer rugs wei seaport of Mombasa: so I was obliged to chills with fever t sleep on a bench in the saloon. That did not bother me very much, because I IN NAIROBI, LARG burned up with fever all the way. In coml)arison, the inconvenience seemed Nairobi is the slight. Africa, is a seat Kisumu, on the shore of Victoria, is ment, very desira some 3,700 feet above sea level; Nairobi pretends to be a is nearly 5,500 feet. Therefore when we design, though tl left Kisumu we began to climb. The about Kenya Cole train mounted the Kikuyu escarpment, The adjacent c with an elevation of 8.ooo feet, and we The naked native began to experience arctic cold, although place. The Eng this railroad is almost on the Equator. ously attempted ti 189 Photograph by Vittorio Sella UGANDA ee big drums. The largest laced a smaller one. called ne minister. Most Uganda xhide heads. re a necessity; I mixed he night through. EST TOWN O1' CENTRAL, \AFRICA largest town in Central of the British Govern bly situated, and rather city after the tropical lere is nothing tropical my thereabouts. ountry is mountainous. Blacks seemed out of lish have very strenu o make the region civi- :aTt ' 1,
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