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over the country. The river started to rise rapidly, 
soon flooding its banks and becoming a raging 
murky torrent, tearing up trees by the roots and 
whirling them along like straws. Steadily higher 
and higher rose the flood, and standing on my 
bridge, I watched expectantly for the two temporary 
THE COMPLETED TSAVO BRIDGE. 
trolley bridges—which, it will be remembered, we 
had built across the stream in order to bring stone 
and sand to the main work—to give way before the 
ever-rising volume of water. Nor had I long to 
wait; for I soon caught sight of a solid mass of 
palm stems and railway sleepers sweeping with 
almost irresistible force round the bend of the river 
