CHAPTER III 
THE ISLAND OF MOMBASA, WITH THE JUNGLES OF 
EQUATORIAL AFRICA “ONLY A FEW BLOCKS 
AWAY.” A STORY OF THE WORLD’S CHAM¬ 
PION MAN-EATING LIONS 
In this voyage of the Woermann there were about 
twenty Englishmen and thirty Germans in the first 
class, not including women and children. There 
was practically no communication between the two 
nationalities, which seemed deeply significant in 
these days when there is so much talk of war be¬ 
tween England and Germany. Each went his way 
without so much as a “good morning” or a guten 
abend . And it was not a case of unfamiliarity with 
the languages, either, that caused this mutual 
restraint, for most of the Germans speak English. 
It was simply an evidence that at the present time 
there is decidedly bad feeling between the two races, 
and if it is a correct barometer of conditions in 
Europe, there is certain to be war one of these days. 
On the Woermann we only hoped that it would not 
break out while the weather was as hot as it was at 
that time. 
The Germans are not addicted to deck sports 
while voyaging about, and it is quite unusual to 
find on German ships anything in the way of deck 
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