GRA Ee hE hy ave 
THE BUILDING OF THE TSAVO BRIDGE 
Durine all this troublesome period the construc- 
tion of the railway had been going steadily forward 
and the first important piece of work which I 
had commenced on arrival was completed. This 
was the widening of a rock cutting through which 
the railway ran just before it reached the river. 
In the hurry of pushing on the laying of the line, 
just enough of the rock had originally been cut 
away to allow room for an engine to pass, and con- 
sequently any material which happened to project 
outside the wagons or trucks caught on the jagged 
faces of the cutting. I myself saw the door of a 
suard’s van, which had been left ajar, smashed to 
atoms in this way ; and accordingly I put a gang of 
rock-drillers to work at once and soon had ample 
room made for all traffic to pass unimpeded. While 
this was going on, another gang of men were laying 
the foundations of a girder bridge which was to span 
