One of my major investments when I was in UCLA was to order the two volumes on the *Permanent Way.* The postage was more than the cost of the hardbound books. Total cost BP 5. As several of you might know....during the construction of the Uganda railway the main problem was Man Eathing Lions (I suppose lions also ate women) ..You have heard of the Man Eaters of TSAVO.....was there a Goan hunter who helped in getting rid of this menace Two....There is mention of a certain Mr Braganza who worked for the Germans on the Tanga railway. Basically there were more Goans in Tanga, Bagamoyo then in Dar es Salaam. Why did the Germans have them....because they knew how to write in the Romi script, and were culturally adaptable. I have been reading about the Ismaili Community .....Itis remarkable what they have done. A colleague from Makarere wrote a book on Visram and Sewa aji