Tsavo is 133 miles from Mombasa, and during the construction
of the line no less than twenty-nine Indians were eaten there
by lions. The work was threatened, and a party of three young
men--Hubner, Parenti and Ryal--took a car and lay in wait at
night for a bold man-eater, who had stalked up and picked up a
man on an open railway truck as the train slowed down into the
station. Parenti lay on the floor, Hubner was in an upper berth,
and Ryal was on the seat of the carriage, with his rifle. Ryal
was on guard, but unfortunately he fell asleep. At 2 o’clock
in the morning the man-eater they were hunting entered the
carriage, picked up Ryal, jumped through the window, and fled
to the forest, where the unfortunate man’s whitened bones were
long afterward found.--PETER MACQUEEN, _Leslie’s
Weekly_.
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