3-085-759 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Reinforcements for Uganda: arrival of an Indian Contingent at Mombasa - 27th Bombay Infantry, 1898. 'Part of the camp. From Photographs by Mr. B. Whitehouse, Mombasa. The 27th Bombay Infantry, sent from India on account of the trouble in the Uganda Protectorate, arrived at Mombasa in the middle of December, and are shown encamped there in our Illustrations. The Punjabi contingent had already left Mombasa for Kikuyu, and is now making good progress up country. The regiment has since moved in four detachments to Ndi, 110 miles up the railway, where there is good water and where the men were likely to remain for some time owing to want of transport. Heliographic communication can, however, be easily established with the interior, as there is a good road all the way up country. The railway telegraph wire has already been pushed ahead of the rails, and is now at Kibwezi, 190 miles from Mombasa, the seventy miles advance having been carried out in sixteen days under the able direction of Mr. Stallibrass, the telegraph superintendent of the Railway Administration'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.