All The Scoundrels Were Found Guilty
And Sentenced To Various Terms Of Imprisonment
In The Chain-Gangs, And I Was Never Again Troubled
With Mutinous Workmen.
CHAPTER VI
THE REIGN OF TERROR
The lions seemed to have got a bad fright the
night Brock and I sat up in wait for them in the
goods-wagon, for they kept away from Tsavo and
did not molest us in any way for some considerable
time - not, in fact, until long after Brock had left
me and gone on safari (a caravan journey) to
Uganda. In this breathing space which they
vouchsafed us, it occurred to me that should they
renew their attacks, a trap would perhaps offer the
best chance of getting at them, and that if I could
construct one in which a couple of coolies might
be used as bait without being subjected to any
danger, the lions would be quite daring enough
to enter it in search of them and thus be
caught. I accordingly set to work at once, and
in a short time managed to make a sufficiently
strong trap out of wooden sleepers, tram-rails,
pieces of telegraph wire, and a length of heavy
chain. It was divided into two compartments -
one for the men and one for the lion. A sliding
door at one end admitted the former, and once
inside this compartment they were perfectly safe,
as between them and the lion, if he entered the
other, ran a cross wall of iron rails only three
inches apart, and embedded both top and bottom
in heavy wooden sleepers.
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