ABSTRACT
The main railway from Freetown to Pendembu runs right through the centre of the Protectorate to within a few miles of the French and Liberian frontiers, and a branch line from Boia runs a hundred miles north to Makene and Kamabai. Motor roads in Sierra Leone are certainly few and short compared, say, with the Gold Coast, but here again there is singularly little demand for more roads, or for road extensions, from the commercial community. Road construction in Sierra Leone is being proceeded with, slowly, in those localities where it is agreed between the political officers, chiefs and merchants that there is a need for such facilities. The principal means of transportation in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone and also in the northwest of the Protectorate are the rivers, and Government is spending such sums as it can afford on improving these means of communication.
