the port of embarkation for Uganda, distant 584 miles 

 from the Coast, and situate at an altitude of 3,660 feet 

 above sea level. Here are situated the dry dock and 

 construction and repair slip of the Lake steamer 

 service, cotton ginneries, Customs Department, and 

 clearing and forwarding houses. A trade in fresh 

 fish is done with stations on the Uganda Railway as 

 far down as Nairobi. 



ELDORET. 



Eldoret is the leading centre of trade on the 

 Uasin Gishu Plateau. It is connected with Londiani 

 on the Uganda Railway, 67 miles distant, by a very 

 indifferent road. It possesses a hotel, several good 

 stores, a branch of the Standard Bank of South 

 Africa, Ltd., a post and telegraph office, Government 

 school and official buildings. Eldoret will be an im- 

 portant station on the Nakuru-Mumias Railway when 

 constructed, and even to-day is a township of some 

 importance. A creamery has recently been erected, 

 there are several flax mills in the vicinity, and it is a 

 collecting and distributing depot for the incoming and 

 out-going trade of the Plateau. 



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