"THE BRIDCE OVER THE TSAVO RAPIDLY NEARED COMl'I.ETION." 



CHAPTER X 



THE COMPLETION OF THE TSAVO IJKIlMIE 



\ViiF.x all the excitement had died down and 

 there was no longer any dread of the man-eaters, 

 work went on briskly, and the bridge over the 

 Tsavo rapidly neared completion. As the piers and 

 abutments progressed in height, the question of 

 how to lift the large stones into their positions had 

 to be solved. We possessed no cranes for this 

 purpose, so I set to work and improvised a shears 

 made of a couple of thirty-foot rails. These were 

 bolted together at the top, while the other ends 

 were fixed at a distance of about ten feet apart in a 



