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National Geographic : 1925 Feb
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CAIRO TU CAPE TOWN, OVERLAND Photograph by Porter Shay TIIEY COULDN'T RESIST A SWIMMING HOLE "Up in the Sudan, and here in Tanganyika as well, whenever we reached water the boys took off their loin cloths and went in for a swim. Only one out of a dozen seemed able to swim. The rest simply paddled and bathed" (see text, page 221). yika, Rhodesia, and South Africa, all unter the British flag, are governed as separate countries. As we entered each we were obliged to pass through customs. We crossed Lake Victoria from Ki sumu to Mwanza, a journey of 48 hours, in the company of a Scotch captain, a Scotch engineer, and as pleasant a group of white men as one could hope to meet anywhere. The day we tied up at Mwanza a British officer, who had spent some years in the United States, came on board and insisted that he had the right to be our host; but before Captain Bruce would let us leave he called out his small loat and took us to some of the rocky islands near Mwanza, where we picnicked and hunted iguanas. Some of these giant lizards were five or six feet long and six or seven inches in diameter. These islands were covered with wild orchids. From Mwanza to Tabora, up south through Tanganyika, we were obliged to walk a distance supposed to be 300 miles. Apart from our camp beds, kettles and pans, and the ever-trusty revolver, we had no other camp equipment. \Ve were told on board the boat to "see Bolini." Bolini is an Italian, a trader, and the oldest white settler in Mwanza. Our friend the British officer found Bolini for us. Bolini kindly lent us a tent, which we were to send back to him by our black boys when they returned, after we had released them at Tabora. Certain of the white men whom we had met in Kenya Colony advised that we take a machdila (a hammock) on this long march; but Porter would have none of it. She insisted that she was going to walk, and that she did not want a machila with us, lest it raise the question as to whether 209
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