CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS _Familiar Talks About Countries and Peoples_ WITH THE AUTHOR ON THE SPOT AND THE READER IN HIS HOME, BASED ON THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES OF TRAVEL OVER THE GLOBE CAIRO TO KISUMU EGYPT—THE SUDAN—KENYA COLONY [Illustration: ON THE GREAT ASWAN DAM “The dam serves also as a bridge over the Nile. I crossed on a car, my motive power being two Arab boys who trotted behind.”] _CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS_ CAIRO TO KISUMU _Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya Colony_ BY FRANK G. CARPENTER LITT.D., F.R.G.S. [Illustration] WITH 115 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND TWO MAPS IN COLOUR GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1923 COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY FRANK G. CARPENTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. _First Edition_ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In the publication of this book on Egypt, the Sudan, and Kenya Colony, I wish to thank the Secretary of State for letters which have given me the assistance of the official representatives of our government in the countries visited. I thank also our Secretary of Agriculture and our Secretary of Labour for appointing me an Honorary Commissioner of their Departments in foreign lands. Their credentials have been of the greatest value, making available sources of information seldom open to the ordinary traveller. To the British authorities in the regions covered by these travels I desire to express my thanks for exceptional courtesies which have greatly aided my investigations. I would also thank Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, and Miss Ellen McBryde Brown and Miss Josephine Lehmann for their assistance and coöperation in the revision of the notes dictated or penned by me on the ground. While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives, these have been supplemented by photographs from the Publishers’ Photo Service and the American Geographic Society. F. G. C. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE