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a very sleepless and uncomfortable time, and was 

 badly bitten by mosquitoes. 



As a matter of fact, it was some months before 

 the lions attacked us again, though from time to 

 time we heard of their depredations in other 

 quarters. Not long after our night in the goods- 

 wagon, two men were carried off from railhead, 

 while another was taken from a place called Engo- 

 mani, about ten miles away. Within a very short 

 time, this latter place was again visited by the 

 brutes, two more men being seized, one of whom 

 was killed and eaten, and the other so badly 

 mauled that he died within a few days. As I 

 have said, however, we at Tsavo enjoyed complete 

 immunity from attack, and the coolies, believing 

 that their dreaded foes had permanently deserted 

 the district, resumed all their usual habits and occu- 

 pations, and life in the camps returned to its normal 

 routine. 



At last we were suddenly startled out of this 

 feeling of security. One dark night the familiar 

 terror-sticken cries and screams awoke the camps, 

 and we knew that the " demons" had returned and 

 had commenced a new list of victims. On this 

 occasion a number of men had been sleeping 

 outside their tents for the sake of coolness, thinking, 

 of course, that the lions had gone for good, when 

 suddenly in the middle of the night one of the brutes 



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