Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
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
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u the road descends rapidly to aledge whereon the Escarpment station overlooks the Rift Valley, fifteen hundred feet below. By daylight this is an exciting ride; for, after rounding curve after curve among the plantations of the Wa-Kikuyu and the swamps west of Limoru, the road suddenly swings around a more abrupt turn and sweeps down to the border of a vast, unpeopled plain, traversed by a tiny thread of silver, the Ke-dong River. Beyond the river in a dreamy horizon line Mount Longanot towers with a spur partially closing in the Rift Valley, the great depression already mentioned which runs through the heart of Africa from the Zambesi to the Red Sea. Mile after mile the valley rolls in waves whose crests are tossed with the foam of a million flowers. The road keeps to the side of the Rift, running almost northward under Kijabe Hill. The station earns its native title (the Wind), being a windy, bleak, dusty locality. Thence the road continues to Lake Naivasha, a body of fresh water where the gov-
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The Uganda Railway 119 ernmental experiment farm, previously mentioned,is maintained. Considerable attention, I learned, has been paid to the breeding and taming of zebras,and other wild animals, like the eland. Thus far no marked results have been obtained. The Germans at Tanga are more successful, and have produced a fine animal, which they call the zebroid — a mixture of donkey and zebra. When young,the zebra is easily tamed and will follow its owner like a dog, even into his house and bed — rather too much of a good thing with a four-footed pet.Young Harry Edgehill of Nairobi claims to have a successful plan of raising tame zebras. From Naivasha the road ascends the Rift Valley, turning once, in a huge loop nearly due south, to follow the line of the mountains and avoiding the salt lake Elmenteita, then north again, along the northern shore of Lake Nakuru, a round body of bitter salt water. On it goes with many curves, along the Mau escarpment, crossing in this section, in a space of se

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