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THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO 



CHAP. 



this way two Swahili porters were killed during the 

 last week of November, one being immediately 

 carried off and devoured. The other was heard 

 moaning for a long time, and when his terrified com- 

 panions at last summoned up sufficient courage to go 

 to his assistance, they found him stuck fast in the 



"THEY FOUND HIM STUCK FAST IN THE BUSHES OF THE Boma" 



bushes of the boma, through which for once the lion 

 had apparently 'been unable to drag him. He was 

 still alive when I saw him next morning, but so 

 terribly mauled that he died before he could be got 

 to the hospital. 



Within a few days of this the two brutes made a 

 most ferocious attack on the largest camp in the 



