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THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO 



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so far failed to come across anybody who has 

 actually tried the experiment. On the other hand, 

 I have met one or two men who have been tossed 

 on the horns of these animals, and they described 

 it as a very painful proceeding. It generally means 

 being a cripple for life, if one even succeeds in 



"SLAVES CHAINED NECK TO NECK AS WAS THE CUSTOM." 



escaping death. Mr. B. Eastwood, the chief 

 accountant of the Uganda Railway, once gave me 

 a graphic description of his marvellous escape from 

 an infuriated rhino. He was on leave at the time 

 on a hunting expedition in the neighbourhood of 

 Lake Baringo, about eighty miles north of the 

 railway from Nakuru, and had shot and apparently 



