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THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO 



CHAP. 



ments one for the men and one for the lion. A 

 sliding door at one end admitted the former, and 

 once inside this compartment they were perfectly 

 safe, as between them and the lion, if he entered 

 the other, ran a cross wall of iron rails only three 

 inches apart, and embedded both top and bottom in 



"THE DOOR WHICH WAS TO ADMIT THE LION." 



heavy wooden sleepers. The door which was to 

 admit the lion was, of course, at the opposite end of 

 the structure, but otherwise the whole thing was very 

 much on the principle of the ordinary rat-trap, 

 except that it was not necessary for the lion to seize 

 the bait in order to send the door clattering down. 

 This part of the contrivance was arranged in the 



