The carriage bumped pleasantly along, and as we reached a little rise a few hundred feet away, the great stretch of the plains lay spread out before us.
Mount Kenia, eighty or ninety miles north, was clear and bright with its snow-capped peaks sparkling in the early sunlight.

Off to its left rose the Aberdare Range, with the dominating peak of Kinangop; to its right rose the lone bald uplift of Donyo Sabuk, and to the east were the blue Lukenia Hills.

The house-tops of Nairobi waved miragically in the valley, with a low range of blue hills beyond.

Across the plains ran the row of telegraph poles that marked the course of the railway and a traveling column of smoke indicated the busy course of a railway train.
This was the setting within which lay the broad stretches of the Athi Plains, billowing in waves like a grass-covered sea.
[Photograph: A Nest of Ostrich Eggs] [Photograph: A Herd of Ostriches] [Photograph: By courtesy of W.D.Boyce We Bumped Merrily Along] As we drove along big herds of zebras paused in their grazing to regard the carriage as it merrily bumped across the hills.

As long as we remained in the vehicle they showed no alarm, for they had seen many carriages along the neighboring roads.