Nothing can match just being in a village when the ship's arrival horn kickstarts a mad rush from both passengers and traders.
Many passengers are Lodwar traders who get off at Eldoret, a stopover en route, making a 1,000km (620-mile) round-trip to stock up at their nearest supermarket.
The Black Star Line, according to the encyclopedia, was established in 1919 by Marcus Garvey as a response to complaints about discrimination against black passengers, sailors and African traders.
For one thing, trains run often, and even if there is no passenger train, people and traders go by cargo liner, perching on the frames of oil tanker cars or cramming into metal boxcars.
By all accounts, roads outside the city that lead to the Dominican border are controlled by armed gangs that rob and rape passengers on buses filled with traders.
Goods and people have swirled for a long time, and in the 17th, 18th or 19th century you might have found on any ship a crew and passengers made up of slaves, traders, cooks, officers, colonizers and pilgrims more diverse than our dinner table.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack in telephone calls to local news media outlets on Friday evening, and vowed to continue targeting M.Q.M. M.Q.M. called for traders and private passenger bus services to remain closed on Saturday during three days of mourning.
Among the passengers on Boadicea was Robert Townsend Farquhar, a diplomat and trader with the HEIC who had been sent from London to assume governorship of the islands once they had been captured.
Traders viewed reports of increased manufacturing activity and passenger car sales in December as indications that the economy was on the mend.
As the bus pulled in it was besieged by market traders trying to sell fast food to the remaining bus passengers.
