VI THE REIGN OF TERROR 65 
a very sleepless and uncomfortable time, and was 
badly bitten by mosquitoes. | 
Asa matter of fact, it was some months before 
the lions attacked us again, though from time to 
time we heard of their depredations in other 
quarters. Not long after our night in the goods- 
wagon, two men were carried off from railhead, 
while another was taken from a place called Engo- 
mani, about ten miles away. Within a very short 
time, this latter place was again visited by the 
brutes, two more men being seized, one of whom 
was killed and eaten, and the other so_ badly 
mauled that he died within a few days. As I 
have said, however, we at Tsavo enjoyed complete’ 
immunity from attack, and the coolies, believing 
that their dreaded foes had permanently deserted 
the district, resumed all their usual habits and occu- 
pations, and life in the camps returned to its normal 
routine. 
-At last we were suddenly startled out of this 
feeling of security. One dark night the familiar 
terror-sticken cries and screams awoke the camps, 
and we knew that the ‘‘demons” had returned and 
had commenced a new list of victims. On this 
occasion a number of men had _ been sleeping 
outside their tents for the sake of coolness, thinking, 
of course, that the lions had gone for good, when 
suddenly in the middle of the night one of the brutes 
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