CHAPTER III 



THE ISLAND OF MOMBASA, WITH THE JUNGLES OF 

 EQUATORIAL AFRICA "ONLY A FEW BLOCKS 

 AWAY." A STORY OF THE WORLD'S CHAM- 

 PION MAN-EATING LIONS 



IN this voyage of the Woermann there were about 

 twenty Englishmen and thirty Germans in the first 

 class, not including women and children. There 

 was practically no communication between the two 

 nationalities, which seemed deeply significant in 

 these days when there is so much talk of war be- 

 tween England and Germany. Each went his way 

 without so much as a "good morning" or a guten 

 abend. And it was not a case of unf amiliarity with 

 the languages, either, that caused this mutual 

 restraint, for most of the Germans speak English. 

 It was simply an evidence that at the present time 

 there is decidedly bad feeling between the two races, 

 and if it is a correct barometer of conditions in 

 Europe, there is certain to be war one of these days. 

 On the Woermann, we only hoped that it would not 

 break out while the weather was as hot as it was at 

 that time. 



The Germans are not addicted to deck sports 

 while voyaging about, and it is quite unusual to 

 find on German ships anything in the way of deck 



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