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killed and mauled by wild beasts has been 

 greater than of those speared and wounded by 

 wild men. If you would read of the audacity, 

 terror-striking and demoralizing, with which 

 the king of beasts has interrupted work on the 

 Uganda Railway, Lieut. -Col. Patterson's ex- 

 citing book, The Man-eaters of Tsavo, may be 

 commended to your notice. A lion has been 

 actually known to pull a man from a railway 

 carriage at night. Another dragged a husband 

 from his wife's side in a tent, and after devouring 

 the man, returned and licked up the bath water 

 put by for the morning tub, whilst the terrified 

 woman lay only a few feet away. 



Rhino have been known to charge engines, 

 and elephants to pull down telegraph wires. But, 

 despite all these difficulties, inevitable in railway 

 construction in Equatorial Africa, the Uganda 

 railway is to-day more than paying its way. Its 

 humanitarian object has long been achieved. 

 Slavery is no more. From the windows of the 

 comfortable coaches one may witness some of 

 the most remarkable scenes of the world. The 

 vistas of forest-clad escarpments, the plains and 

 lakes, and the great valleys alone pay interest 

 on the six millions expended on the railway. 



There is another wonderful thing to gaze 

 on — the great snow-capped mountains of Equa- 

 torial Africa. Leaving Mombasa at noon by 

 the Lake Victoria Nyanza express, the traveller, 

 if he is fortunate, may obtain a magnificent 

 view of Kilimanjaro, 19,200 feet high, early 

 next morning. Sometimes the view is wholly 

 obscured, and even when the atmosphere is 

 pure with the fresh purity of the young day, 

 it is a little difficult to make out the towering 

 top of the second highest peak in Africa. But 



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