"Straightening the Line - gangs of native labourers working on the railway near Romani" image: eight local labourers, grouped in two lines of four men, use large metal crow bars to attempt to straighten lengths of newly laid railway track. The men are supervised by a British Army officer wearing pith helmet, shorts and white shirt and standing behind them with his hands on his hips. The railway has been constructed on a man-made raised earth bank, which curves off into the distance to the left. There appear to be other groups of workers further up the line. The landscape is otherwise arid and featureless.