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THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO 



CHAP. 



rivers and proceeded some way down the Sabaki, 

 beside which the Tsavo looks very insignificant. 

 Several islands are dotted about in mid-stream 

 and are overgrown with tall reeds and rushes, 

 in which hippo find capital covert all the year 



"THE BANKS OK THE SABAKI ARE LINED- WITH TREES." 



round. As with the Tsavo, the banks of the 

 Sabaki are lined with trees of various kinds, 

 affording most welcome shade from the heat of 

 the sun : and skirting the river is a caravan road 

 from the interior still used, I believe, for smug- 

 gling slaves and ivory to the coast, where dhows 

 are in readiness to convey them to Persia or Arabia. 



