They've no troops--nothing but a handful of black police.

How shall they keep in order colonials armed with repeating rifles?
They're not ready.

The Uganda Railway isn't finished yet; trains get through to Victoria Nyanza once a week, but there's endless work to be done yet on the line, and Parliament grudges them every penny they spend on it.

Yet the railway was rushed through by order of Parliament to prevent Doctor Karl Peters and the Germans from claiming occupation of the head-waters of the Nile and so dominating Upper Egypt.

You boys must be considerate." "All right," said Fred.