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In Africa

CHAPTER IV
18/34

They were encamped on a hill overlooking the city, with their two hundred and thirty porters ready for the field and their balloon ready to make the first ascension ever attempted in East Africa.
Throngs of natives squatted about, watching the final preparations, and doubtless wondered what the strange, swaying object was.

On the evening of the twenty-second the party gave a moving picture show at one of the clubs for the benefit of St.Andrew's church.

A great crowd of fashionably dressed people turned out and saw the motion picture records of events which they had seen in life only a couple of days before.
There were moving pictures of the arrival of the governor's special train, his march through the city, and many other events that were fresh in the minds of the audience.

There were also motion pictures taken on the ship that brought us down from Naples to Mombasa, and it was most interesting to see our fellow passengers and friends reproduced before us in their various athletic activities while on shipboard.

Mr.Boyce gave an afternoon show for children, an evening show for grown-ups, and was to give another for the natives the following night.


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