m THE ATTACK ON THE GOODS-WAGON 37 
looking for a weak spot to break through. This he 
presently found and plunged into, dragging his 
victim with him and leaving shreds of torn cloth and 
flesh as ghastly evidences of his passage through 
the thorns. Dr. Brock and I were easily able to 
follow his track, and soon found the remains about 
four hundred yards away in the bush. There 
was the usual horrible sight. Very little was left 
of the unfortunate d/zs¢2—only the skull, the jaws, 
a few of the larger bones and a portion of the palm 
with one or two fingers attached. On one of these 
was a silver ring, and this, with the teeth (a relic 
much prized by certain castes), was sent to the 
man’s widow in India. 
Again it was decided to move the hospital ; and 
again, before nightfall, the work was completed, 
including a still stronger and thicker doma. When 
the patients had been moved, I had a covered 
goods-wagon placed in a favourable position on a 
siding which ran close to the site which had just 
been abandoned, and in this Brock and I arranged 
to sit up that night. We left a couple of tents still 
standing within the enclosure, and also tied up a few 
cattle in it as bait for the lions, wlio had been seen 
in no less than three different places in the 
neighbourhood during the afternoon (April 23). 
Four miles from Tsavo they had attempted to seize 
a coolie who was walking along the line. Fortu- 
