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Title: Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Thomas Broadwood
Subjects: Africa, Central -- Description and travel Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London (etc.) : T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Man-eater in a railway carriage—Kilimanjaro—Nairobi, a tintownship —Lifting the engine on—An extinct volcano—Kidong escarpment : descending the zigzags — An oddsupper—Travelling by goods —Stranded at railhead —Our first caravan—Strange tribes—Deluged on the road—Church service at Kisumu—How shall we cross the Nyanza? AFTER getting clear away from the town wesettled down to take stock of our surroundingsand make ourselves comfortable. Nowadays a journey by the Uganda Railway upto the Lake is so well organised that tourists goinground Africa, or travellers going further afield, orthose on the way home (like the members of theRoyal Association from their visit in 1906 to theVictoria Falls of the Zambesi), are not infrequentlydropped at Mombasa to await the next boat; theymay embark on the train for the three days runup to Kisumu, or even spend another couple of daysin crossing the Lake to Uganda, and may do sowith tolerable certainty of getting back again by the
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MAP OF BRITISH EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. Uganda Protectorate includes the Kingdoms .j1 Ut,Mrid.i, fnyorci, T.iro, and Ankole, and the dislricls of Usoga, Acholi, &c, + indicates a Mission Station. For the local tribes around Toro mentioned in the book, sec smaller Map, p. no. BY RAIL, TRAMP, AND CANOE 21 return train from Kisumu safely within the week,or even from Uganda in less than a fortnight.But no one then, with a strictly limited numberof days at his disposal, would have cared to riskhimself many miles out of Mombasa. The chancesof the engine going off the line too often, or a fallof rock across a cutting, or some other unforeseenmishap would have involved too much suspense topermit of pleasure. It was a period of transition, when the old caravanmarch—with its long, weary months of tramping,sometimes varied with spells of fever in a hammock,and accompanied with its sad but seemingly inevitabletale of death among the porters by the way—washappily disappearing before the

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