It was interesting to see the number of Wakamba and Wakikuyu employed on the railway on the higher lands far away from their homes. It is not at all easy to get these natives to work regularly, and still more difficult to get them to leave their homes to go to an unknown country.
Port Florence is situated at the head of a long narrow arm of the Lake Victoria (‘nyanza’ and lake mean the same thing), which should be called Kavirondo Bay, but has by many people been wrongly styled Ugowe Bay.
The great desire of travellers is to escape spending a night at Kisumu. If this should be unavoidable, the night is generally passed in the railway carriage; though there is a dak bungalow near the station, a very small place, with very limited accommodation. Mosquitos enjoy nights better than travellers, who get very little sleep.
