In Foreign Lands : Some Sketches of Travel in Asia, Africa, And Oceania
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An official called the Town Clerk keeps the place clean. I :annot think how he does it. For old Mombasa much resembles Bombay, Calcutta- and Madras, which are not ind never will be clean. I should like to take our City Fathers to smell Mombasa. Perhaps they would not like it. They would miss the odours of the Kalbadevi Road. People are fined four annas in Mombasa if they . A GLIMPSE OF AFRICA 169 But Mombasa is by no means Africa ; it is a fragment of the aggressive East. Tiie real Africa lies ...inland, where every circumstance makes it difficult to reach. It is fortfied with a triple rampart, the inhospitable coast, the desert belt and the mountains. Once you have left the fringe of palm trees, you plunge into the Taru Desert, fifty miles broad, that stretches the whole length of the country. It is not a sandy waste^likei the Sahara, but a dense thicket of spiny acacia trees, with an undergrpwth of brambles. Not even in the rainy season does water lie there, if you are to march across it you must take your water with you.
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