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Chapter 2

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which one of the following would contain the translated Java byte code for a program named Demo?
a. Demo.java
b. Demo.code
c. Demo.class
d. Demo.byte

ANS: C

2. To compile a program named First, use the following command:

a. java First.java
b. javac First
c. javac First.java
d. compile First.javac

ANS: C

3. A Java program must have at least one of these:

a. Class definition
b. Variable
c. Comment
d. System.out.println(); statement

ANS: A

4. In Java, the beginning of a comment is marked with:

a. //
b. ""
c. ;
d. #

ANS: A

5. The term typically refers to the device that displays console output.
a. Standard output device
b. Central processing unit
c. Secondary storage device
d. Liquid crystal display

ANS: A

6. In Java, must be declared before they can be used.

a. Variables
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b. Literals
c. Key words
d. Comments
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ANS: A

7. If the following Java statements are executed, what will be displayed?

System.out.println("The top three winners are\n");

System.out.print("Jody, the Giant\n");
System.out.print("Buffy, the Barbarian");
System.out.println("Adelle, the Alligator");
a. The top three winners are
Jody, the Giant
Buffy, the Barbarian
Adelle, the Alligator
b. The top three winners are
Jody, the Giant\nBuffy, the BarbarianAdelle, the Alligator
c. The top three winners are Jody, the Giant\nBuffy, the BarbarianAdelle, and the Albino
d. The top three winners are
Jody, the Giant
Buffy, the BarbarianAdelle, the Alligator

ANS: D

8. This is a value that is written into the code of a program.

a. literal
b. assignment statement
c. variable
d. operator

ANS: A

9. When the + operator is used with strings, it is known as the:

a. Assignment operator
b. String concatenation operator
c. Addition operator
d. Combined assignment operator

ANS: B

10. What would be printed out as a result of the following code?

System.out.println("The quick brown fox" +

"jumped over the \n"
"slow moving hen.");
a. The quick brown fox jumped over the \nslow moving hen.
b. The quick brown fox jumped over the
slow moving hen.
c. The quick brown fox
jumped over the
slow moving hen.
d. Nothing. This is an error.

ANS: D

11. Which of the following is not a rule that must be followed when naming identifiers?
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a. The first character must be one of the letters a-z, A-Z, and underscore or a dollar sign.
b. Identifiers can contain spaces.
c. Uppercase and lowercase characters are distinct.
d. After the first character, you may use the letters a-z, A-Z, the underscore, a dollar sign, or digits 0-
9.

ANS: B

12. Which of the following cannot be used as identifiers in Java?

a. Variable names
b. Class names
c. Key words
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

ANS: C

13. In Java, it is standard practice to capitalize the first letter of:

a. Class names
b. Variable names
c. Key words
d. Literals

ANS: A

14. Which of the following is not a primitive data type?

a. short
b. long
c. float
d. String

ANS: D

15. Which of the following is valid?

a. float y;
y = 54.9;

b. float y;
double z;
z = 934.21;
y = z;

c. float w;
w = 1.0f;

d. float v;
v = 1.0;

ANS: C

16. The boolean data type may contain values in the following range of values
a. true or false
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b. -128 to + 127
c. - 2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647
d. - 32,768 to +32,767

ANS: A

17. Character literals are enclosed in ; string literals are enclosed in .

a. single quotes; single quotes
b. double quotes; double quotes
c. single quotes; double quotes
d. double quotes; single quotes

ANS: C

18. What is the result of the following expression?

10 + 5 * 3 - 20

a. -5
b. 5
c. 25
d. -50

ANS: B

19. What is the result of the following expression?

25 / 4 + 4 * 10 % 3

a. 19
b. 5.25
c. 3
d. 7

ANS: D

20. What will be displayed as a result of executing the following code?

int x = 5, y = 20;
x += 32;
y /= 4;
System.out.println("x = " + x + ", y = " + y);

a. x = 32, y = 4
b. x = 9, y = 52
c. x = 37, y = 5
d. x = 160, y = 80

ANS: C

21. What will be the value of z as a result of executing the following code?
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int x = 5, y = 28;
float z;
z = (float) (y / x);

a. 5.60
b. 5.6
c. 3.0
d. 5.0

ANS: D

22. What will be the displayed when the following code is executed?

final int x = 22, y = 4;

y += x;
System.out.println("x = " + x +
", y = " + y);

a. x = 22, y = 4
b. x = 22, y = 26
c. x = 22, y = 88
d. Nothing, this is an error

ANS: D

23. In the following Java statement what value is stored in the variable name?

String name = "John Doe";

a. John Doe
b. The memory address where "John Doe" is located
c. name
d. The memory address where name is located

ANS: B

24. What will be displayed as a result of executing the following code?

int x = 6;
String msg = "I am enjoying this class.";
String msg1 = msg.toUpperCase();
String msg2 = msg.toLowerCase();
char ltr = msg.charAt(x);
int strSize = msg.length();
System.out.println(msg);
System.out.println(msg1);
System.out.println(msg2);
System.out.println("Character at index x = " +
ltr);
System.out.println("msg has " + strSize +
"characters.");

a. I am enjoying this class.

I AM ENJOYING THIS CLASS.
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i am enjoying this class.

Character at index x = e
msg has 24 characters.

b. I am enjoying this class.

I AM ENJOYING THIS CLASS.
i am enjoying this class.
Character at index x = e
msg has 25 characters.

c. I am enjoying this class.

I AM ENJOYING THIS CLASS.
i am enjoying this class.
Character at index x = n
msg has 24 characters.

d. I am enjoying this class.

I AM ENJOYING THIS CLASS.
i am enjoying this class.
Character at index x = n
msg has 25characters.

ANS: D

25. What will be displayed as a result of executing the following code?

public class test

{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int value1 = 9;
System.out.println(value1);
int value2 = 45;
System.out.println(value2);
System.out.println(value3);
value = 16;
}
}

a. 9
45
16
b. 94516
c. 9 45 16
d. Nothing, this is an error

ANS: D

26. Which of the following is not a valid comment statement?

a. // comment 1
b. /* comment 2 */
c. */ comment 3 /*
d. /** comment 4 */
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ANS: C

27. When saving a Java source file, save it with an extension of

a. .javac
b. .class
c. .src
d. .java

ANS: D

28. Every Java application program must have

a. a class named MAIN
b. a method named main
c. comments
d. integer variables

ANS: B

29. To print "Hello, world" on the monitor, use the following Java statement
a. SystemOutPrintln("Hello, world");
b. System.out.println{"Hello, world"}
c. System.out.println("Hello, world");
d. Print "Hello, world";

ANS: C

30. To display the output on the next line, you can use the println method or use this escape sequence in the
print method.

a. \n
b. \r
c. \t
d. \b

ANS: A

31. This is a named storage location in the computer's memory.

a. Literal
b. Constant
c. Variable
d. Operator

ANS: C

32. What would be displayed as a result of the following code?

int x = 578;
System.out.print("There are " +
x + 5 + "\n" +
"hens in the hen house.");

a. There are 583 hens in the hen house.

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b. There are 5785 hens in the hen house.

c. There are x5\nhens in the hen house.
d. There are 5785
hens in the hen house.

ANS: D

33. Variables are classified according to their

a. value
b. data type
c. names
d. location in the program

ANS: B

34. The primitive data types only allow a(n) to hold a single value.
a. variable
b. object
c. class
d. literal

ANS: A

35. If x has been declared an int, which of the following statements is invalid?
a. x = 0;
b. x = -58932;
c. x = 1,000;
d. x = 592;

ANS: C

36. Given the declaration double r;, which of the following statements is invalid?
a. r = 326.75;
b. r = 9.4632e15;
c. r = 9.4632E15;
d. r = 2.9X106;

ANS: D

37. Variables of the boolean data type are useful for

a. working with small integers
b. evaluating true/false conditions
c. working with very large integers
d. evaluating scientific notation

ANS: B

38. What is the result of the following expression?

25 - 7 * 3 + 12 / 3
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a. 6
b. 8
c. 10
d. 12

ANS: B

39. What is the result of the following expression?

17 % 3 * 2 - 12 + 15

a. 7 b.
8 c.
12
d. 105

ANS: A

40. What will be displayed after the following statements have been executed?

int x = 15, y = 20, z = 32;

x += 12;
y /= 6;
z -= 14;
System.out.println("x = " + x +
", y = " + y +
", z = " +z);

a. x = 27, y = 3.333, z = 18
b. x = 27, y = 2, z = 18
c. x = 27, y = 3, z = 18
d. x = 37, y = 14, z = 4

ANS: C

41. What will be the value of z after the following statements have been executed?

int x = 4, y = 33;
double z;
z = (double) (y / x);

a. 8.25
b. 4
c. 8
d. 8.0

ANS: D

42. This is a variable whose content is read only and cannot be changed during the program's execution.

a. operator
b. literal
c. named constant
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d. reserved word

ANS: C

43. What will be displayed after the following statements have been executed?

final double x = 99.0;

x = 54.3;
System.out.println("x = " + x );

a. x = 54.3
b. x = 99
c. x = 153.3
d. Nothing, this is an error.

ANS: D

44. Which of the following is a valid Java statement?

a. String str = 'John Doe';
b. string str = "John Doe";
c. string str = 'John Doe';
d. String str = "John Doe";

ANS: D

45. What will be displayed as a result of executing the following code?

int x = 8;
String msg = "I am enjoying java.";
String msg1 = msg.toUpperCase();
String msg2 = msg.toLowerCase();
char ltr = msg.charAt(x);
int strSize = msg.length();
System.out.println(msg);
System.out.println(msg1);
System.out.println(msg2);
System.out.println("Character at index x = " +
ltr);
System.out.println("msg has " + strSize +
" characters.");

a. I am enjoying java.
I AM ENJOYING JAVA.
i am enjoying java.
Character at index x = j
msg has 20 characters.

b. I am enjoying java.
I AM ENJOYING JAVA.
i am enjoying java.
Character at index x = o
msg has 20 characters.

c. I am enjoying java.
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I AM ENJOYING JAVA.
i am enjoying java.
Character at index x = o
msg has 19 characters.

d. I am enjoying java.
I AM ENJOYING JAVA.
i am enjoying java.
Character at index x = y
msg has 19 characters.

ANS: C

46. Which of the following does not describe a valid comment in Java?
a. Single line comments, two forward slashes - //
b. Multi-line comments, start with /* and end with */
c. Multi-line comments, start with */ and end with /*
d. Documentation comments, any comments starting with /** and ending with */

ANS: C

47. Which of the following statements correctly creates a Scanner object for keyboard input?

a. Scanner kbd = new Scanner(System.keyboard);

b. Scanner keyboard(System.in);

c. Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

d. Keyboard scanner = new Keyboard(System.in);

ANS: C

48. Which Scanner class method reads an int?

a. readInt() c. getInt()
b. nextInt() d. read_int()

ANS: B

49. Which Scanner class method reads a String?

a. readString() c. getString()
b. nextString() d. nextLine()

ANS: D

50. Which one of the following methods would you use to convert a string to a double?

a. Byte.ParseByte c. Integer.ParseInt
b. Long.ParseLong d. Double.ParseDouble
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ANS: D

TRUE/FALSE

1. A Java program will not compile unless it contains the correct line numbers.

ANS: F

2. All Java statements end with semicolons.

ANS: F

3. Java is a case-insensitive language.

ANS: F

4. Although the dollar sign is a legal identifier character, you should not use it because it is normally used for
special purposes.

ANS: T

5. Assuming that pay has been declared a double, the following statement is valid.
pay = 2,583.44;

ANS: F

6. Named constants are initialized with a value, that value cannot be changed during the execution of the program.

ANS: T

7. A variable's scope is the part of the program that has access to the variable.

ANS: T

8. In Java the variable named total is the same as the variable named Total.

ANS: F

9. Class names and key words are examples of variables.

ANS: F

10. Both character literals and string literals can be assigned to a char variable.

ANS: F

11. If the compiler encounters a statement that uses a variable before the variable is declared, an error will result.

ANS: T

12. Programming style includes techniques for consistently putting spaces and indentation in a program so visual
cues are created.

ANS: T
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tom Burnaby:
A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest
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Title: Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo

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Language: English

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM BURNABY: A

STORY OF UGANDA AND THE GREAT CONGO FOREST ***
 TOM BURNABY

Produced by Al Haines.

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A Warm Reception. (See page 46.)
 TOM BURNABY
A STORY OF
UGANDA AND THE GREAT CONGO FOREST

BY
HERBERT STRANG

NEW EDITION

What good gift have my brothers, but it came

From search and strife and loving sacrifice?
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD

HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
 REPRINTED 1922 IN GREAT BRITAIN
BY MORRISON AND GIBB LTD., EDINBURGH

MY DEAR JACK,
Your birthday has come round again--and here, with every good
wish, is another book for your shelf. No mailed knights this time; our
story is of the present day. Yet you shall find paynim hordes as many
and as fierce as you please; yes, and chivalry itself, or I am much
mistaken,--although we may not spell it with a capital C. For it is a
theory of mine--"Old Uncle and his theories!" I hear you say!--that
the spirit of chivalry is as much alive to-day as ever, and finds as free
a scope. And if chivalry is, as I take it to be, the championing of the
weak and the oppressed, no region of the world offers a wider field
than Central Africa, where there is still ample work for the
countrymen of Livingstone and Gordon. Some day, perhaps, you
may yourself visit that land, and come back with as deep a sense of
its glamour and pathos as the rest of us. Meanwhile, since even at
Harrow the sky is not always clear, why not on some rainy afternoon
pack up your traps and transport yourself in imagination to Uganda
with Tom Burnaby? If you return with a certain stock of information
about the land and its people--well, your old uncle will be all the
better pleased. Not, of course, that this trip should be a reason for
neglecting your football--or other duties!
Your affectionate uncle,
HERBERT STRANG.

Contents

KABAMBARI

CHAPTER I
FITTING OUT AN EXPEDITION

CHAPTER II
MBUTU

CHAPTER III
ON THE VICTORIA NYANZA

CHAPTER IV
A STERN CHASE

CHAPTER V
A LONG MARCH
CHAPTER VI
UNMASKED

CHAPTER VII
AMBUSCADING AN AMBUSH

CHAPTER VIII
IN THE TOILS

CHAPTER IX
GONE AWAY!

CHAPTER X
THE LAND OF THE PIGMIES

CHAPTER XI
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

CHAPTER XII
BIG MEDICINE
CHAPTER XIII
BLOOD-BROTHERHOOD

CHAPTER XIV
THE SIEGE OF BAREGA'S

CHAPTER XV
ARMS AND THE MAN

CHAPTER XVI
THE MAKING OF AN ARMY

CHAPTER XVII
TREACHERY

CHAPTER XVIII
THE GREAT FIGHT

CHAPTER XIX
TOM'S ARMADA
CHAPTER XX
AN END AND A BEGINNING

ZANZIBAR

Illustrations

PLATE I
A WARM RECEPTION . . . . . . Frontispiece

PLATE II
A MÊLÉE IN THE FOREST

PLATE III
TOM SURPRISES MABRUKI

PLATE IV
TOM IN THE BREACH

PLATE V
THE FIGHT ON THE LAKE
 Plans

PLAN I
THE BATTLE OF IMUBINGA

PLAN II
BAREGA'S VILLAGE DURING THE SIEGE

PLAN III
THE GREAT FIGHT BY THE SWAMP
KABAMBARI
A belt of matted woodland. At the edge, three Belgian officers, in
light uniform and white topee, lying prone, and peering cautiously
out through glasses. Before them, a wide clearing, with a mud-
walled town in the midst, and huge forest-trees beyond. Behind, a
few score stalwart Bangala, strewn panting on the ground. Over all,
the swarming sunlit haze of tropical Africa.
The gates stand open; peace reigns in Kabambari. But what is
peace in Kabambari? Some hundreds of negro slaves are tilling
sorghum in the cultivated tract outside the stockaded walls. Their
chains clank as they move heavily down the field, dogged by an
Arab overseer armed with rifle, scimitar, and whip. The pitiless sun,
scorching their bent backs, blackens the scars left by the more
pitiless scourge.
In the copse there is a whispered word of command; the negro
soldiers spring silently to their feet, line up as best the broken
ground permits, and then, at the heels of their white officers, charge
out into the sunlight. No yell nor cheer, as they dash towards the
open gate; the overseer, ere he can give the alarm, is bayoneted
while his finger is on the trigger; the slaves, listless, apathetic, have
scarcely time to realize their taskmaster's doom before the thin line
has swept past them and through the gates. Then there is a sudden
sharp crackle of musketry; cries of startled fear and savage triumph;
and by ones and twos and threes, turbaned figures pour out of the
far side of the town, a scanty remnant of the Arab garrison. One by
one they drop as they cross the open; only a few gain the shelter of
the forest. The heirs of Tippu Tib are broken and dispersed. The
struggle has been long, the issue doubtful; but now, after years of
stern fighting, the great Arab empire, founded upon murder, rapine,
and slavery, is scattered to the winds. One thing only is wanting to
make this last victory complete. Rumaliza, the Arab commander,
Tippu Tib's ablest lieutenant, has escaped the net. Whether to live
and build anew the dread fabric raised by his late chief; or whether
to die in the gloomy depths of the Great Forest by starvation or
disease, or by the poisoned arrow of the Bambute--who can say?
 CHAPTER I: Fitting Out an Expedition

The Major--A New Friend--By Rail to Uganda--Dr. O'Brien Introduces Himself--The

Major Orders a Retreat--Left Behind

A suit of boating flannels and a straw hat are no doubt a convenient,

cool, and comfortable outfit for a July day on the Thames, but they
fail miserably to meet the case on an average hot morning in Central
Africa. So Tom Burnaby found as he walked slowly through Kisumu,
stopping every now and again to mop his face and wish he were
well out of it. If his dress had not betrayed him, his undisguised
interest in the scene would in itself have bespoken the "griffin" to
the most casual observer. The few Europeans whom he met eyed
him with looks half of amusement, half of concern. One advanced as
if to address him, then repented of the impulse and passed on.
Suddenly his attention was arrested by a noise ahead, gradually
increasing in intensity as he approached. "The queerest noise you
ever heard in your life," he wrote in a letter to a chum at home.
"Imagine some score of huge ginger-beer bottles turned topsy-turvy
and the fizz gurgling out, with a glug, glug, glug, and a sort of
gigantic fat chuckle at the end,--then more glugging and chuckling,
and chuckling and glugging. I was wondering what it meant, when
suddenly I came to a huge shed, and then I saw the cause of all the
row. About a hundred natives, as black as your hat, their skins
shining like polished bronze, were working away at baggage and
packages of all sorts, rolling up canvas, packing boxes and bales,
tugging at ropes, and all the time jabbering and cackling and
laughing and glug-glugging like a cageful of monkeys.
"I stood still and watched them for a minute, and then there
was a sudden lull in the uproar, and I heard my old uncle's voice for
the first time. There he was, the dear old chap, perched on a pile of
ammunition-boxes, and the language he was using was evidently so
warm that it was a wonder the whole show didn't blow up. I could
only make out a word here and there, most of it was double Dutch
to me; but whatever it was, it made those poor black fellows bustle
for all they were worth. Then in the middle of his address the old
boy suddenly caught sight of my unlucky self. You should have seen
the expression on his face! He stopped as if a live shell had pitched
into the shed; and--well, what happened then must keep till our next
meeting. I could never do justice to the interview in a letter."
To say that Major John Burnaby was surprised at the sudden
appearance of his nephew in Kisumu only feebly expresses his state
of mind. After a few seconds of speechlessness, his feelings found
vent in the deliberate exclamation:
"Well--I'm--hanged!"
Tom stood in front of him, looking very warm. There was
another embarrassing silence.
"What do you mean by this?" were the major's next words.
"I really couldn't help it, Uncle Jack."
"Couldn't help it!" gasped the major.
"Oh well, you know what I mean! I saw in the papers that a
column was going up to catch the beggars who killed Captain Boyes,
and that you had got the job. 'Uncle Jack,' I thought, 'has got his
chance at last, and I'm going to be there.' And here I am!"
"I see you are! And you mean to say you have left your work,
thrown it all up, ruined your career, to come on a wild-goose chase
like this? You'll go home by the next boat, sir."
"Don't say that, Uncle. I know it's sudden, but you see there
was no time to lose. I couldn't write; I should never have got your
answer in time; and you surely couldn't expect me to stop in a grimy
engineering shop on the Clyde when my only uncle had got his
chance at last! I must see it through with you, Uncle Jack."
"Must! must!" repeated the major. "Tom, I'm surprised at you--
and annoyed, sir--seriously annoyed at your folly. The absurdity of it
all! You can't join the expedition. It's against the regulations, for one
thing; this is a soldier's job, and civilians would only be in the way.
Besides, you're not seasoned; the climate would bowl you over in no
time, and you're too young to peg out comfortably. What's more,
you'd be no earthly use. Oh! I can't argue it with you," pursued the
major, as Tom was about to protest; "you're demoralizing my men.
Cut off to my bungalow, and keep out of mischief till I have done
with them. Then I shall have something to say to you."
Tom looked pleadingly for an instant into his uncle's face, but
finding no promise of relenting there, he turned slowly on his heel
and walked away.
"So much for that! I was half afraid I'd catch it," he said to
himself. "My word, isn't it hot!"

Tom was only eighteen, but he had already had disappointments

enough, he thought, to last him a lifetime. Ever since he could
remember, he had set his heart on being a soldier like his uncle
Jack; but the sudden death of his father, a quiet country parson, had
left him with only a few hundreds for his whole capital, and he had
perforce to give up all ideas of going to Sandhurst. At this critical
moment an opening offered itself in the works of an engineering
firm on the Clyde, the head of which was an old school chum of his
uncle's. It was Hobson's choice. He went to Glasgow, and there for a
few months felt utterly forlorn and miserable. Then he pulled himself
together, and began to take an interest even in the grimy work of
the fitting-shop. He worked well, went through various departments,
and was gaining experience in the draughtsman's office when he
read one day in the paper that his uncle was appointed to the
command of a punitive expedition in the Uganda Protectorate. The
news revived his old yearnings; after one restless night he drew out
enough to pay his passage and buy an outfit, and booked himself on
the first P. and O. steamer for Suez.
Among his fellow-passengers the only one with whom he had
much to do was a plump German trader, who joined at Gibraltar
from a Hamburg liner. He amused Tom with his outbursts of patriotic
fervour, alternating with periods of devotion to the interests of his
firm. At one moment he was soaring aloft with the German eagle; at
the next he was quoting his best price for pig-iron. Tom found him
useful to practise his German on. He had always had a turn for
languages; indeed, his only distinctions at school, besides his being
the best bat in the eleven and a safe man in goal, were won in
German and French. Naturally, he soon scraped acquaintance also
with the chief engineer, and the pleasantest hours of the voyage out
were those he spent in the engine-room, where he showed an
unusually intelligent interest in the details of the machinery. He
changed ship at Suez, and was heartily glad when, on awaking one
morning, he caught sight of the white houses of Mombasa gleaming
amid the dark-green bush.
The first thing he did on landing was to enquire the
whereabouts of the expedition. He learned that it was fitting out at
Kisumu, six hundred miles inland, on the shore of the Victoria
Nyanza, and that he could reach the terminus at Port Florence by
railway in two days. There being no train till next morning, he
swallowed his impatience and roamed about the town. Amid the
usual signs of Arab ruin and neglect he saw evidences of a new life
and activity. He could not but admire the splendid harbour, in which
a couple of British cruisers were lying at anchor; he climbed up to
the old dismantled Portuguese fort, and examined every nook and
cranny of it; he strolled about through the narrow, twisted streets,
finding much to interest him at every step--grave Arab booth-
keepers, sleek and wily Persians, lank Indian coolies, and negroes of
every race and size in every variety of undress.
He put up for the night at the Grand Hotel. At dinner he was
faced by an elderly gentleman with ruddy cheeks, side whiskers, and
a shiny pate, who gave him a casual glance, but, with the
Englishman's usual taciturnity, for some time said nothing. When,
however, he had comfortably settled his soup, the old gentleman
held his glass of claret to the light, looked at Tom over the rims of
his spectacles, and said:
"Just out, sir?"
"Yes; I landed this morning."
"H'm! Government appointment, sir?"
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