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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900.

THE LIONS THAT STOFFED THE made. It was a huge maneless lion, 9 feet

RAILWAY,

Speaking in the House of Lords of the progress of the Uganda Railway, Lord Salisbury mentioned that among the un- expected difficulties encountered were a pair of man-cating Rons, which stopped the works' three weeks, before they were shot. As rome Five thousand men were at work on the fino, their intimidation by two lions seems almost incredible. Yet it is a fact that so dreadful was the pressure exercised by the constant attacks of this pair of men-destroying wild beasts, and so cumulativethe fear caused among the Indian labourers by the sight and sound of their com rades being, dragged off and devoured, that hundreds of these industrious workinen, trained on siguilar duties under the service of the Government of India, abandoned their employ ment and pay, and crying out that they agreed to work for wages, not to be food for lians or devils, rushed to the fine as the trains for the const were approaching, and flinging them selves across the metals, gave the engine-drivers the choice, either of passing over their bodies, or of stopping to take them up and carry them back to Mombasa. Many of there men. were por timid Hindoos, but sturdy Sikhs. Yet the circumstances were so unique, and the scenes witnessed from week to week so bloody and appalling, that their pante and desperation are no matter for surprise. Lord Salisbury understated the facts. Though the works were stopped for three weeks, the liors' campaign lasted, with intervals of quiet when one or other had been wounded, from March till the end of December. In this time they killed and cal twenty eight futlians, and it is believed at least twice this number of natives, Swahilis and the like; besides wounding and attacking others. They attacked white engineers, doctors, soldiers, and military officers, armed Abyssinian askaris," sepoys, bennials, coolies, and porters. Some they clawed, some they devoured, sonte they carised off and feft sticking in thorn fraces because they could not drag them through At first they wes contented to take one man between them. Before the end of their career they would take, a man apiece on. the same night, sometinies from the sanie but or camp fire. The plain, unvarnished tale of this "pre. historic revival" of the position originally held by man in the struggle for existente against ravenous beasts is sel out nt considerable length and detail in the Field of February 17th and February 24th by Mr. J. H. Patterson, one of the cugineers of the line, who, after months of effort and personal risk, succeeded in breaking the spell, and killing bath the lions, which the natives had come to regard as "devils," that is, as equivalent" to were-wolves, and guided by the local demons. The parallel in the story of the lions which stopped the rebuilding of Samaria must occur every one, and if the Samaritans had a quarter as good cause for their fears as bad the railway coulies, their wish to propitiate the local deities is easily understood, the whole body of lion anecdote, from the days of the Assyrian Kings till the last year of the nine- teenth cenuity, were collated and brought together, it would not equal in tragedy or atrocity, in savageness or in sheer insolent con- tempt for man, armed or unarmed, white or black, the story of these two beasts. The scene of their exploits was only one hundred and thirty miles from the coast, in the valley of a cooland swift stream, the Tsavos River. Filled by the melting of the snows on Kilimanjaro, bordered with palms and ferns and at further distance by a dense and impass able jungle of thorns, its banks became suddenly the camping ground of thousands of hard-working Indian railwaymen. who slept in camps scattered up and down the line for some eight miles. Into these camps the lions came, thrusting their gigantic leads under the flaps of the tents, or walking in at the doors of the hute. Their first victim was a Sikh jemadar, taken from a tent shared by a dozen other workmen; the next a coolie. Then they raided the camps regularly until the local length of rail was finished, and the bulk of the men moved up country out of the lions' beat. But some hundreds were left behind, to build bridges and do permanent work. It was then then that the lions' reign of terror began, which ended in the complete stoppage of an Imperial enterprise supplied with every mechanism and appliance of civilisation, from traction engines to armed troops.

Perhaps the strongest evidence of the pres- sure to which these beasts subjected the dominant biped man is that they forced him to become arboreal. If the seating of blood and bones were not so ghastly, the scene would provoke a smile. After hundreds had fled some three hundred still remained, for whom the enginter, worn out by want of sleep himself, by constant tracking of the lions by day and sitting up by moonlight, endeavoured to find safe quanters by night, when they might be seen "perched on the top of water. lanks, roofs, and bridge-girders. Every good sized tree in camp had as many beds lashed to it as its branches would bear. So many men got up a tree once when a camp was attacked that it came down, the men falling close to the tions. Strange to say, they did not heed them, but then they were busy devouring a man they had just seized."

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8 inches long and 3 feet 9 inches high, Its "Ipat neat had been an African native." The

other was 9 feet 6 inches long, and 3 feet inches high. Both beasts killed man solely for food, though, the country round swarmed with every description of gante dear to lions. Only when the men had run away, or taken to or slept in iron huts, did they kill goats trees, or donkeys. They ate every portion of the men's bodies except the top of the skull and sometimes the hands. It is sald that in the island of Singapore tigers have actually as sembled and multiplied in order to eat the Chinese coolist wow employed on the planta tions. But the records of the East do not supply an instance in which six thousand men and a Government organisation were baffled and defied by two man-eaters,

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To what a distance the whole story carries us back, and how impossible. it becomes to dccount for the survival of primitive man against this kind of foe! For fire-which has against the carnivora-these cared nothing. hitherto been regarded as his main safeguard It is curious that the Tsavos Tions were not killed by poison, for strychnine is easily used and with effect. Poison may have for its powers are employed with strange used early in the history of man, skill by the men in the tropical forest, both in America and West Central Africa. But there is no evidence, that the old inhabit, ants of Europe, or of "Assyria, or Asia Minor, ever killed hons or wolves by this means, They looked to the King or chief or some cham- pion, to kill these monsters for them. It was not the sport but the duty of Kings, and was in itself a title to be a ruler of men. Theseus, who cleared the roads of beasts and robbers; Her- cules, the lion-killer; St. George, the dragon slayer, and all the rest of their class owed to this their everlasting fame. From the story of the Tsavos River we can appreciate their ser- vices to man even at this distance of time. When the jungle twinkled with hundreds of lamps, as the shout went on from camp to camp that the first lion was dead, and the hurrying crowds fell prostrate in the midnight forest lay ing their heads on his feet, and the Africans danced savage and ceremonial dances of thanks giving, Mr. Patterson must have realised in no cominion way what it was to have been a hero und deliverer in the days when man was not yet undisputed jord of the creation, and might pass at any monent under the savage dominion of the beasts-Specialer..

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The fearful shrieks of the victims rang in their cars night after night, till no one knew whose turn would come next. Sound men lay and listened to the cracking of bones and the tearing of limbs within fifty yards of the place where they were, and sick imen in hospital ex: pired from sheer terror as they listened to tho monsters quarrelling over their feast. Twenty shots were fired in the dark at the sound of the lions eating a man, and they finished him to the last bone. They would spring over the highest thorn boma," pick up a man and trot. round with him looking for the best way out, as a cat carries a rat. Every one will ask, why were these men not armed? The answer is that the ordinary coolie does not know the use of arms, but that, even when the lions were fired at, unless actually hit, they cared nothing. Unlike nearly all wild beasis, they feared neither fire, nor firearms, nor lamps, nor white men. Dobberke, H. One sprang on an officer's back, tore off his Drummond knapsack, and then carried off and ate a soldier | E. M. S. §. Co. who was following him. They prowled round Emerson, G. D. and round white men in marons (sheltered by Echaporis, R. S. the dark), trying to stalk them. One was Choody, ], E caught in an ingenious trap, made of two cages Ellias, D. H. of steel rails, in one of which were three sepoys Emile, P armed with Martinis. The lions had become Evans, F. H. so used to walking into húis that the trap itself Eckelhardt was an extra inducement to be bold, and they Figmeida, H. looked on the sepoys as bait. The sepoys lost their heads as the lion bounced about, and. blazed off in every direction bat the right one, though they could have touched the imprisoned beast with their rifles. At last one bullet hit the catch of the door and released the lion, Another was shot in the back with aluga. A week later, it tried to stalk Mr. Patterson, who was sitting in a tree, and after stalking him like a Boer sharp-shootet from bush to bush till within twenty yards, was wounded, and next day was killed. The other had been shot

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HE Company's Steamship

THE

"MAIDZURU MARU" CaptainT. Ogata, will be despatched for the above ports, on SUNDAY, the 29th instant, at Daylight,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, Agents.

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1900.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. FOR LIVERPOOL (DIRECT), VIA SUEZ CAÑAL.

Taking Cargo at London Rates, THE Company's Steamship THE

"IXION,"

Captain Thompson, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the 30th instant

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, 19th April, 1900.

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THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. LIMITED."

FOR MANILA.

HE Company's New Steamship

THE

"DIAMANTE,"

Captain Blaxland, will be despatched for the above port, on TUESDAY, the 1st May," At 5 P.M.

The attention of Passengers is directed to the excellent accommodation provided by this steamer. She is fitted throughout with Electric Light

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers.."

Hongkong, 25th April, 1900.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LONDON via SUEZ CANAL.

modious Premises, to eclipse, as heretofore THE Company's Steamship

ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRACTICED

in the Colony or in any part of the Far East.

GROUPS AND VIEWS a speciality. Hongkong, 2nd September 1898.

A CURE FOR ASTHMA!!! GEIMAULTS

INDIAN CIGARETTES

Asthmatic people who suffer from Op- pression in breathing, stifling sensations, Hoarseness, and Loss of voice, Nor. yous coughs, Laryngitis, Cold's, with Wheezing, Bronchitis, Insomnia, Catarrhal affections, and diffoulty in Expectoration, are promptly rolloved by these Cigarettes.

GRIMAULT & CO., Paris, tali by all Chemista.

GRIMAULT'S

Matico Capsules

AND INJECTION

Renowned Physicians proscribe Grimatil's Matico as the most active and at the same time the most inconviver.biedy in the treatment ofAoute and Chronic Dischargos Those Capsules, unlike Copaiba, have not the inconvenien400 of producing Nailers.

AND

MATICO INJECTION is used in regerit MATICO CAPSULES in the mets chronio cases GRIMAULT & Co., Parla. 3d by all thomfate,

UNTOUCHED BY HAND.

MELLIN'S

For

INFANTS

FOOD

and

INVALIDS.

When prepared is similar to Breast Milk.-

MELLIN'S FOOD WORK), PRCKHAM, LONDON, ENGLAND.

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"MACHAON,"

Captain Hannah, will be despatched. TUESDAY, the 1st May.

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

Hongkong, zoth March, 1900.

- FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL:

"HE Steamship

TH

"ST. REGULUS,"

will be despatched for the above Port on or about the 3rd May.

For Freight, apply to

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Agents.

Hongkong, 14th April, 1960.

₤496b

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL.

THE Company's Steamship

"ALCINOUS," Captain Pulford, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 15th May,

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 9th April, 1900,

[40gb CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED. FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND FORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE THE Company's Steamship

"TSINAN," Captain Anderson, will be despatched on WEDNESDAY, the 15th May, at Noon.

The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provisions during the entire voyage.

A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light N.B.-Return Tickets issued by this Com pany to and from AUSTRALIA are available for return by the Steamers of the EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN S.S. Co, and vice versa For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1900.

1492b

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

·FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL.

HE Company's Steamship

THE

"PATROCLUS,"

Captain Dickons will be despatched as above

on TUESDAY, the 29th May.

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

Hongkong, 19th April, 1900-

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Shipping.

STEAMERS.

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

YUENSANG,"

Captain E. H. Rolfe, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd May, at

4 P.M.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First Class Passenger.

For Freight or Paysage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Gederal Managers,

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1900

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LIVERPOOL (DIRECT),

VIA SUEZ CANAL.

Taking Cargo at London Rates.

HE Company's Steamship

THE

IDOMENEUS,"