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were appalled by hearing the growls of the Man- 

 Eaters gradually getting nearer and nearer. Some 

 of the poor fellows almost lost their reason through 

 terror, as they lay there pinned down at the mercy 

 of the brutes; but fortunately before the lions made 

 any actual attack, a relief gang arrived, accompanied 

 by Dr. Brock, the medical officer, who had a busy 

 time that night. I was especially struck with the 



"SEVERAL OF THE TRUCKS WERE qy*M"> FROM THE RAILS. 



dreadful injuries sustained by one poor Swahili 

 porter, who had several ribs broken, an arm 

 fractured, and in addition one of his thighs smashed 

 to atoms half-way above the knee. 



I thought it a perfectly hopeless case, but Brock 

 took him in hand, bound up the fractures and 

 amputated the leg. In some six weeks the man 

 was out of hospital, and I saw him often afterwards, 



