12 THE ROOSEVELT HUNT. 
tropical land—“if a man has any physical weakness, Africa is certain to find 
it out”; and it is generally accepted as the final word that no white man can 
maintain the strenuous life in Africa for more than five years. In spite of 
the liberal use of quinine, fevers and malaria laid low hundreds of railroad 
builders, while toward the lake terminus the silent, insidious tsetse flies 
inoculated many native workmen with the fatal Sleeping Sickness. 
A FINE) UONE)SS. 
But the man-eating lions were the supreme terror and scourge of the 
builders of the road, and they alone added to its cost more than a human life 
per mile. The greatest campaign conducted by the builders against the man- 
eaters was in the vicinity of Tsavo station, about 130 miles from Mombasa. 
After twenty-nine native workmen had been killed and eaten, and others 
attacked and badly mauled, three young railroad engineers side-tracked a car 
at a place near the station where a few days before a lion had sprung upon a 
slowly-moving train, like a flash seized a man in one of the open cars and 
