The Man-Eaters of Tsavo/LOI

by John Henry Patterson

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• Heads of Eight Lions shot by the Author in British East Africa
• Mombasa, from the Harbour
• The Native Quarter, Mombasa
• Well-wooded hills and slopes on the mainland
• Vasco da Gama Street and Pillar
• The best way to get three . . . was by gharri
• I pitched my tent under some shady palms
• Kilindini is on the opposite side of the island
• The Place of Deep Waters
• A lucky shot brought down the huge bird
• I slept that night in a little palm hut
• This interminable nyika
• The river crossed by means of a temporary bridge
• Women of Uganda
• The tent from which jemadar Ungan Singh was carried off
• My own tent was pitched in an open clearing
• We shared a hut of palm leaves and boughs
• The camps of the workmen had also been surrounded by thorn fences
• Railhead Camp, with its two or three thousand workmen
• The two wounded coolies were left where they lay, a piece of torn tent having fallen over them
• A luncheon served in the wilds, with occasionally a friend to share it
• It very soon became a great pet
• Heera Singh made a wild spring into the water to get clear of the falling stone
• The door which was to admit the lion
• When the trap was ready, I pitched a tent over it
• They found him stuck fast in the bushes of the boma
• Perched on the top of water-tanks
• I took up my position in a crib made of sleepers
• Whitehead on a Trolley at the exact spot where the Lion jumped upon him
• Abdullah and his two Wives
• A party of Wa Jamousi
• His length from tip of nose to tip of tail was nine feet eight inches
• Head of the first Man-Eater
• The following evening I took up my position in this same tree
• He measured nine feet six inches from tip of nose to tip of tail, and stood three feet eleven and a half inches high
• The bridge over the Tsavo rapidly neared completion
• The heavy stones were swung into position
• The girder was run over its exact place
• And finally lowered gently into position
• Very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train cross the finished work
• The completed Tsavo bridge
• One of the Trolley Lines after the Flood
• Swahili Caravan Porters
• Such was my cook, Mabruki
• The women . . . wear a long, brightly-coloured cloth
• The women attire themselves only in a short kilt
• We arrived at M'Gogo's capital
• Making pombe in the hollowed-out stump of a tree
• Wa Taita Men
• M'Kamba Woman
• Until it joins the Athi River
• The banks of the Sabaki are lined with trees
• I caught sight of a fine waterbuck and successfully bowled him over
• A young one was lying down in the grass quite close to me
• A crocodile on the Sabaki
• Beyond all doubt, the man-eaters' den!
• Watch the animals come down to drink
• The antelope swinging by his feet
• Hippo Head
• Slaves chained neck to neck as was the custom
• Hospital Tent at Voi where Mrs. O'Hara rested
• In the Bazaar at Kampala
• The great Athi Plains
• First the earth surface has to be prepared
• Cuttings have to be made and hollows banked up
• Another gang drops the rails in their places
• It never moved again
• The trophy was well worth the pains I had taken to add it to my collection
• Jackson's Hartebeeste, and Zebra
• Waterbuck
• Fortunately the brute fell dead after this final effort
• We managed to bring them in triumph to the camp
• I got near enough for a safe shot, which bowled the antelope over stone-dead
• Wart-hog
• A successful snapshot of an impala just after it had been shot
• A Masai Chief
• Masai Warriors
• Masai Woman
• Masai Girls
• Masai Women
• N'derobbo Boy
• N'derobbo Boy, with Collabus Monkey
• N'derobbo Girl
• Wa Kikuyu
• The women of the Wa Kikuyu carry the heavy loads
• Spooner's plucky servant, Imam Din
• A Collection of Trophies
• He was kept on view for several days, and then shot
• Impala
• I took a photograph of him standing reside his fine trophy
• Succeeded in finishing him off without further trouble
• Steamer unloading at Kisumu, on Lake Victoria Nyanza
• The Grand Falls, Tana River
• Shimone, The Place of Falling Water (Eldama Ravine)
• Oryx
• Roan Antelope
• An excellent, cheery fellow . . . named Landaalu
• Crossing a Stream on the Cook's Box
• Crossing the Angarua River
• Reedbuck
• The New Eland -- T. oryx pattersonianus
• Thomson's Gazelle
• War Canoe on Lake Victoria Nyanza, near the Ripon Falls
• Preparing Breakfast in Camp
• View in the Kenya Province
• A flying visit in a rickshaw to Kampala
• Clad in long flowing cotton garments
• Jinja
• Rushing over the Ripon Falls

The mighty river stretching away to the north amid enchanting scenery

• Wa Kikuyu Warriors
• Map of British East Africa
• Facsimile of address presented to the author on his departure from East Africa in 1899