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every colour, clear and limpid. The air is cool and refreshing
and a strange sentimental influence seems at work.
Unremembered incidents arise and cause a little homesick
gulp and a tremendous feeling that the past was very good
and of sorrow that it is past. This continues for an hour until
darkness has spread its black garments over the sky. The
warm luxurious climate makes me feel very sentimental and
has influenced me, though not against my wishes, to write to
Edie a confession of her position in my life. What she will
think of it I don't quite know but absolute sincerity can do no
harm and I hope she will return my comradeship.
He had to wait until September for her reply to reach him.
On Monday April 3rd the General and its passengers crossed
the Equator but
the event was not kept in any way for a year or so ago
when one of the passengers was going through the ordeal of
being buried in soot and having the hose turned on etc., he
became so nervous that he walked overboard and was
drowned.
A week later they were at Mombassa and approaching the end
of their journey:
As far as I can make out, the area seems to be rivalling the
Riviera for popularity amongst the richer holiday makers.
There is a railway to Lake Victoria Nyanza and half way
towards the lake a new and flourishing holiday resort called
Nairobi where half or more of the passengers are going. The
climate is the finest in the world and already they have elec-
tric light, hotels, taxi cabs etc., and a constant service of trams
to the lake and to the coast!
The British places, Mombassa and Zanzibar, are a curious
mixture of native Arab and European houses and there are
no direct streets, but narrow lanes which wind about like a
gigantic maze, leading nowhere in particular, constantly
devolving fresh views and surprises and characterised only
by bad drainage and remarkable odours. All the people there
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