Away off in the hills a mile or more from town is Government House, where the governor lives, and near by is the club and a new European hospital, looking out over a sweep of country that on clear days includes Kilima-Njaro, over a hundred miles to the southeast, and Mount Kenia, a hundred miles northeast.
You are still in civilization in Nairobi.

Anything you want you may buy at some of the shops, and almost anything you may want to eat or drink may easily be had.

There are weekly newspapers, churches, clubs, hotels, and nearly all the by-products of civilization.

One could live in Nairobi, only a few miles from the equator, wear summer clothes at noon and winter clothes at night, keep well, and not miss many of the luxuries of life.

The telegraph puts you in immediate touch with the whole wide world, and on the thirtieth of September you can read the Chicago _Tribune_ of August thirty-first.
At present the chief revenue of the government is derived from shooting parties, and the officials are doing all they can to encourage the coming of sportsmen.