There are three passenger trains a week for a part of the distance, but only one doing the whole length. Ours was a specially heavy one, as we had quite twenty-five European passengers, besides two carriages of natives and Indians. In all, including the registered luggage, which filled two vans, we had ten vans and carriages, quite as much as the engine could draw, seeing that in the first 350 miles we ascend over 6,000 feet.
We had some illustrious passengers on the train. The wife of the late Mwanga, ex-king of Uganda, was returning from the Seychelles, together with her infant child and attendants. Hearing we were for Uganda, and knowing our names, she asked if we would take her in our care.
The chief transport officer gave us money for her, in the event of her needing more than she already had, and we looked after her right up to Kisumu.
