Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I

64 ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD. while the engineers confronted the dangers of pushing a line of railway through the heart of a virgin, and to a considerable extent un- known, country with dauntless pluck and per- severance. Never once did they falter from th© task they had taken in hand, though at times they might well have been pardoned had they given way to despair. The chief stations and distances along the line from Mombasa to Port Florence are as follows :— Mombasa........................... — yoj...............................103 miles. Tsavo............................. -1^3 „ Kenani...............................148 „ Masongaleni...........................185 „ Makindu............................ 209 „ Kiu..................................267 „ Nairobi........................ • • • -327 „ Kikuyu................................342 „ Escarpment............................364 „ Londiani..............................500 „ Fort Ternan...........................536 „ Port Florence.........................584 „ Thanks are, due to Sir Francis L. O'Callaghan, K.C.M.G., C.S.I., C.I.E Managing Member of the Uganda Railway Committee, for his revision of the Article, and for the loan of Photographs. THROUGH THE PRIMEVAL FOREST.