From Naples to Entebbe. 



20,000 labourers and artisans from India, to feed, lodge and 

 clothe them, and to supply them witli the necessary implements. 

 Everything had to be brought out either from England or from 

 India, thus necessitating as great forethought and as complete 

 organization as are required for a military campaign. In addition 

 to all this, owing to the enormous difficulty of transport in 

 a country where the tsetse-fly makes the use of beasts of 

 burden impossible, the work of cutting and preparing the line 

 could only proceed a very short distance in advance of that 

 of lavino- the rails. Some of the districts traversed were 

 unhealthy. At times epidemics prevailed. The men were 

 tormented by divers kinds of parasitic insects. Lions made 

 numerous victims and struck terror into the workmen. 



The undertakino- was commenced in 1895, before the 

 completion of the conquest of Uganda. In the very midst 



WITmX THE ENCLOSURE OF THE MARKET, KISUMU. 



of the work in 1897, the colony ran a serious risk through 

 mutiny among the Sudanese troops and the rebellion of the 

 Kings of Uganda and Unyoro, instigated by the Mohammedan 



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