We stood in silence in the long grass, and I smoked a cegarette. Just as I was throwing it away, the mist spread a little , and a pale cold clarity began to fill the world. In ten minutes we could see where we were.
タバコを消すとちょうど霧が晴れてあたりを見渡せるようになります。
The plains lay below us, and I could follow the road by which we had come, as it wound in and out along the slopes,climbed towards us, and, winding, went on. To the South, far away , below the changing clouds, lay the broken, dark blue foot-hills of Kilimanjaro. As we turned to the North the light increased, pale rays for a moment slanted in the sky and a streak of shining silver drew up the shoulder of Mount Kenya. Suddenly, much closer, to the East below us, was a little red spot in the grey and green the only red there was, the tiled roof of my house on its cleared place in the forest.
Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of his life … The bow-string was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.