From Naples to Entebbe. 
20,000 labourers and artisans from India, to feed, lodge and 
clothe them, and to supply them with 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 laying 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 undertaking was commenced in 1895, before the 
completion of the conquest of Uganda. In the very midst 
WITHIN 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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