From Naples to Entebbe. 
As is well known, Mombasa is now connected with Lake 
Victoria by a railway which runs 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 bead 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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