70 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
this way two Swahili porters were killed during the 
last week of November, one being immediately 
carried off and devoured. The other was heard 
moaning for a long time, and when his terrified com- 
panions at last summoned up sufficient courage to go 
to his assistance, they found him stuck fast in the 
“* THEY? y¥FOUND HIM STUCK FAST IN THE BUSHES OF THE Boma.” 
bushes of the éoma, through which for once the lion 
had apparently been unable to drag him. He was 
still alive when I saw him next morning, but so 
terribly mauled that he died before he could be got 
to the hospital. 
Within a few days of this the two brutes made a 
most ferocious attack on the largest camp in the 
