. Our holiday in Africa . conducted a church mission and school. They have a church building of stone, and other buildingsfor different school grades, also where carpentry and differ-ent trades are taught, all together making quite a town in apleasant, shady, cocoanut grove. Dr. Binns life has been spent here. He is an old manbut still hale and hearty, and good for years of service in thisereat cause. UGANDA RAILWAY The Uganda Railway starts from Mombasa and runs fivehundred and eighty-four miles to Victoria Nyanza. This linewas built by the English Government at the cost of twenty-twomillion
. Our holiday in Africa . conducted a church mission and school. They have a church building of stone, and other buildingsfor different school grades, also where carpentry and differ-ent trades are taught, all together making quite a town in apleasant, shady, cocoanut grove. Dr. Binns life has been spent here. He is an old manbut still hale and hearty, and good for years of service in thisereat cause. UGANDA RAILWAY The Uganda Railway starts from Mombasa and runs fivehundred and eighty-four miles to Victoria Nyanza. This linewas built by the English Government at the cost of twenty-twomillion dollars, and completed ten years ago. The gauge isfour feet with good heavy rails and iron ties, the track wellgraded and ballasted. The rolling stock is small light cars,but those used for freight are built of iron throughout. The passenger coaches are small compartment cars, thecompartments seating four persons each, and having a shelfthat lets down to form a sleeping berth. The passengers must 27 OUR flOLIDAY IX AFRICA. UGANDA RAILWAY furnish their own bed clothing and towels, and there are noporters to make up the beds or roll up the bed clothing in themorning. Many passengers take a native servant along to dothis work. The engines used on this road were built Ijy the BaldwinLocomotive Works of New Jersey, and the iron bridges, wdiichare very few, were built by an American company. The ob-stacles in building this line were great, not the least of whichwere the white ants, which eat almost everything, includingrailway ties. At the time the railroad was building the lions,leopards and buffalos were very troublesome. At Tsavo Sta-tion, there were twenty-eight natives carried away and eaten bythe lions, all of which demoralized the working force to suchan extent that they deserted the work at this point. At lastthe manager. Colonel Patterson, built a cage for himself andwatched for the lions at night until he killed the twO ferociousanimals, and then the natives resumed their w
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