**THE BRIDGE OVER THE TSAVO RAPIDLY NEARED COMPLETION.” 
CHAPTER 
THE COMPLETION OF THE TSAVO BRIDGE 
WueN all the excitement had died down and 
there was no longer any dread of the man-eaters, 
work went on briskly, and the bridge over the 
Tsavo rapidly neared completion. As the piers and 
abutments progressed in height, the question of 
how to lift the large stones into their positions had 
to be solved. We possessed no cranes for this 
purpose, so I set to work and improvised a shears 
made of a couple of thirty-foot rails. These were 
bolted together at the top, while the other ends 
were fixed at a distance of about ten feet apart ina 
