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It is of metre gauge, was begun in 1887 and is some 300 m. long. The railway had created a record in being the most expensive built in tropical Africa £8942 per mile. A railway from Lobito Bay, 25 m.N. of Benguella, begun in 1904, runs towards the Congo-Rhodesia frontier. It is intended to serve the Katanga copper mines.
Meanwhile the usual message ran through the island, and so admirable were the arrangements which Arthur the reformer had initiated, that, before noon of the next day, not a signal station on the coast but knew that No. 8942, etc., etc., prisoner for life, was illegally at large.
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