From Naples to Entebbe. 



As is well known, Mombasa is now connected with Lake 

 Victoria by a railway which rinis north-west from the coast in a 

 direction nearly parallel to the Anglo-German boundary, and 



KISUMU MARKET. 



touches the lake at Port Florence at the head of the Bay of 

 Kavirondo, almost upon the equator. 



At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of May, the 

 Italian expedition left Mombasa by the railway, which traverses 

 regions completely unknown less than thirty years ago. 



The distance from the east coast to Lake Victoria is 

 584 miles. At the present day this distance is covered in a 

 couple of days without the least fatigue, comfortably seated in 

 the little narrow-gauge railway carriages which are arranged 

 inside like those on our own Sardinian railways. Only a few 

 years ago several months of difficult and dangerous travel 

 among warlike tribes, over wretched tracks, in an unfavourable 

 climate and with all the complications, obstacles and expense 



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