during the construction work. Colonel Patterson wrote a book about "The Man Eaters of Tsavo," and its fame is worldwide. The terror of the native workmen on the railway finally became so great that work was suspended for a time. Then one of the engineers fixed up an iron cage, and spent five nights in it. The second night he shot one of the lions, another the third night, and the last one the fifth night. A good many hunters in Africa laugh at the Tsavo story as greatly exaggerated; indeed, I have heard it openly stated here that the Lion Lie is one of the greatest jokes in Africa. Every hunter, the African people say, takes home a fierce lion lie, and the world has come to believe thousands of big stories about these animals that are ridiculous.
Wednesday, April 16.—At noon today we left
Mombasa for Aden; no more stops for five or six
days. Loading at Mombasa continued without interruption
for eighteen hours, and when the colored
laborers went away on barges, they cheered because
of the completion of their long task. . . . Outside
the harbor, we encountered the first motion of the voyage,
and several of the passengers went to bed. The
motion was not great, but it was the first we have had.
We had been wondering what the "Burgermeister"
would do in case of heavy weather, and found her
specialty is a pitch. The pitch is far more agreeable
than the roll. . . . We had been told by the captain
to expect the hottest weather of the voyage be-
