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were appalled by hearing the growls of the Man- 

 Eaters gradually getting nearer and nearer. Some 

 of the poor fellows almost lost their reason through 

 terror, as they lay there pinned down at the mercy 

 of the brutes ; but fortunately before the lions made 

 any actual attack, a relief gang arrived, accompanied 

 by Dr. Brock, the medical officer, who had a busy 

 time that night. I was especially struck with the 



"several of the trucks were hurled from the rails." 



dreadful injuries sustained by one poor Swahili 

 porter, who had several ribs broken, an arm 

 fractured, and in addition one of his thighs smashed 

 to atoms half-way above the knee. 



I thought it a perfectly hopeless case, but Brock 

 took him in hand, bound up the fractures and 

 amputated the leg. In some six weeks the man 

 was out of hospital, and I saw him often afterwards. 



