CELA PARE Re Lx. 
THE STRICKEN CARAVAN 
Nor long after this adventure the permanent way 
reached the boundary of the Kapiti Plains, where a 
station had to be built and where accordingly we 
took up our headquarters for a week or two. A 
few days after we had settled down in our new 
camp, a great caravan of some four thousand men 
arrived from the interior with luggage and loads of 
food for a Sikh regiment which was on its way 
down to the coast, after having been engaged in 
suppressing the mutiny of the Sudanese in Uganda. 
The majority of these porters were Basoga, but 
there were also fair numbers of Baganda (z.e. people 
of Uganda) and of the natives of Unyoro, and 
various other tribes. Of course none of these wild 
men of Central Africa had either seen or heard of a 
railway in all their lives, and they consequently 
displayed the liveliest curiosity in regard to it, 
crowding round one of the engines which happened 
