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propped up against a carriage, I took a photograph 

 of him standing beside his fine trophy. 



Three days after this incident railhead reached 

 Nairobi, and I was given charge of the new 

 division of the line. Nairobi was to be the head- 

 quarters of the Railway Administration, so there 



" I TOOK A I'HOTOC.RAI'H OF HIM STANDING RKSIDF: HIS KINK TROl'HY." 



was an immense amount of work to be done in 

 converting an absolutely bare plain, three hundred 

 and twenty-seven miles from the nearest place 

 where even a nail could be purchased, into a 

 busy railway centre. Roads and bridges had to 

 be constructed, houses and work-shops built, turn- 



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