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I hasten to explain that the Swahili word, ‘safari’, means any journey, lest my readers imagine me in an impeccably tailored Brooks Brothers Safari outfit; astride an elephant, with big-game; rifle on the ready. Indeed, I saw hundreds' of” herds, Sind Other groupings of game during' my three weeks in Kenya and! Uganda, without even taking a shot with a camera.
Kenya borders Somali and thn Indian Ocean on the east, Lake Victoria and Uganda on the west, Tanzania on the south, and Ethiopia and the Sudan on the north. It has an area of-225,000 square miles, about twice the area of New Mexico. The equator crosses the country about one hundred miles north of Nairobi, Kenya’s capitol.
Mombassa, Kenya’s seaport on the Indian Ocean, is tropical. However, the land rises almost immediately from the sea to a high plateau, from 3,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, so the climate is most temperate in and around Nairobi, where the eleveation is between five and six thousand feet. The temperature seldom gets above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, or below 55 degrees the whole year round.
Most of the country north and east of Mt. Kenya is arid, though not quite desert, and this involves
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