in THE ATTACK ON THE GOODS-WAGON 37 



looking for a weak spot to break through. This he 

 presently found and plunged into, dragging his 

 victim with him and leaving shreds of torn cloth and 

 flesh as ghastly evidences of his passage through 

 the thorns. Dr. Brock and I were easily able to 

 follow his track, and soon found the remains about 

 four hundred yards away in the bush. There 

 was the usual horrible sight. Very little was left 

 of the unfortunate bhisti only the skull, the jaws, 

 a few of the larger bones and a portion of the palm 

 with one or two fingers attached. On one of these 

 was a silver ring, and this, with the teeth (a relic 

 much prized by certain castes), was sent to the 

 man's widow in India. 



Again it was decided to move the hospital ; and 

 again, before nightfall, the work was completed, 

 including a still stronger and thicker boma. When 

 the patients had been moved, I had a covered 

 goods-wagon placed in a favourable position on a 

 siding which ran close to the site which had just 

 been abandoned, and in this Brock and I arranged 

 to sit up that night. We left a couple of tents still 

 standing within the enclosure, and also tied up a few 

 cattle in it as bait for the lions, who had been seen 

 in no less than three different places in the 

 neighbourhood during the afternoon (April 23). 

 Four miles from Tsavo they had attempted to seize 

 a coolie who was walking along the line. Fortu- 



