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Photograph of pontoon carrying boring tackle for testing the river bed

GB1752.UAC/1/11/9/17/43 | UAC Public Relations Department.UAC Public Relations Department: Photograph Albums.UAC Public Relations Department: Niger Company Album. | Pontoon with man stood on it with box and some other stuff tied to riverbank near group of other men. Rising up the bank behind them are a number of straw huts or mounds. To the right is the rocky gateway where the railway bridge is going to be built with another group of people sat on the rocks. River Gongola, Nigeria