CHAPTER II 



THE FIRST HALF OF THE VOYAGE. FROM NAPLES TO 



THE RED SEA, WITH A FEW SIDE LIGHTS 



ON INDIAN OCEAN TRAVEL 



LION hunting had not been fraught with any great 

 hardships or dangers up to this time. The Mediter- 

 ranean was as smooth as a mill-pond, the Suez Canal 

 was free from any tempestuous rolling, and the 

 Red Sea was placid and hot. After some days we 

 were in the Indian Ocean, plowing lazily along and 

 counting the hours until we reached Mombasa. 

 Perhaps after that the life of a lion hunter would be 

 less tranquil and calm. 



The Adolph Woermann was a six-thousand- 

 three-hundred-ton ship, three years old, and so 

 heavily laden with guns and ammunition and steel 

 rails for the Tanga Railway that it would hardly 

 roll in a hurricane. There were about sixty first- 

 class passengers on board and a fair number in the 

 second class. These passengers represented a dozen 

 or so different nationalities, and were bound for all 

 sorts of places in East, Central, and South Africa. 

 Some were government officials going out to their 

 stations, some were army officers, some were profes- 

 sional hunters, and some were private hunters going 

 out "for" to shoot. 



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