RAILWAY BUILDING IN NYASALAND, CENTRAL AFRICA
Natives erecting an embankment. The natives, both men and women, transported the material in baskets carried on their heads.
Sir Bradford Leslie, being interested in the extinction of the slave-trade, gladly co-operated in the scheme, and although he did not visit the country to inspect the outlook on the spot, he prepared estimates from data of the physical conditions extended, upon the basis of his Indian work.
A TYPICAL BRIDGE ON THE NYASALAND RAILWAY
Everything for construction had to be exported from England.
THE NOVEL LIFT BRIDGE OVER THE SHIRÉ RIVER AT CHIROMO
The span is lifted by winches worked by natives.