Dr. Brock And
I Were Easily Able To Follow His Track, And Soon
Found The Remains About Four Hundred Yards Away
In The Bush.
There was the usual horrible sight.
Very little was left of the unfortunate bhisti - only
the skull, the jaws, a few of the larger bones and
a portion of the palm with one or two fingers
attached.
On one of these was a silver ring,
and this, with the teeth (a relic much prized by
certain castes), was sent to the man's widow
in India.
Again it was decided to move the hospital;
and again, before nightfall, the work was
completed, including a still stronger and thicker boma.
When the patients had been moved, I had a
covered goods-wagon placed in a favourable
position on a siding which ran close to the site
which had just been abandoned, and in this Brock
and I arranged to sit up that night. We left a
couple of tents still standing within the enclosure,
and also tied up a few cattle in it as bait for the
lions, who had been seen in no less than three
different places in the neighbourhood during the
afternoon (April 23). Four miles from Tsavo
they had attempted to seize a coolie who was
walking along the line. Fortunately, however,
he had just time to escape up a tree, where
he remained, more dead than alive, until he
was rescued by the Traffic Manager, who caught
sight of him from a passing train.
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