xviii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



I'AGE 



" It very soon became a great pet " 46 



" Heera Singh made a wild spring into the water to get clear 



of the falling stone " 47 



" The door which was to admit the lion " 62 



"When the trap was ready, I pitched a tent over it" 64 



" They found him stuck fast in the bushes of the l>oma .... 70 



" Perched on the top of water-tanks " 73 



" I took up my position in a crib made of sleepers" 77 



Whitehead on a Trolley at the exact spot where the Lion 



jumped upon him 79 



Abdullah and his two Wives 80 



A party of Wa Jamousi 83 



" His length from tip of nose to tip of tail was nine feet 



eight inches" 92 



Head of the first Man-Eater 93 



"The following evening I took up my position in this same 



tree " 99 



" He measured nine feet six inches from tip of nose to tip 



of tail, and stood three feet eleven and a half inches high " 102 



"The bridge over the Tsavo rapidly neared completion" ... 107 



" The heavy stones were swung into position " 108 



" The girder was run over its exact place " 109 



" And finally lowered gently into position " . 109 



" Very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train 



cross the finished work" 110 



The completed Tsavo Bridge 1 1 1 



One of the Trolley Lines after the Flood 112 



Swahili Caravan Porters 118 



" The old caravan road which crossed the Tsavo at a ford " . . 119 



" Such was my cook, Mabruki " 120 



" The women . . . wear a long, brightly-coloured cloth " ... 121 



" The women attire themselves only in a short kilt " . ... 123 



" We arrived at M'Gogo's capital " 124 



' Making pombe in the hollowed-out stump of a tree" .... 125 



Wa Taita Men 127 



M'Kamba Woman 129 



" Until it joins the Athi River" 134 



"The banks of the Sabaki are lined with trees" 136 



