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قراءة كتاب The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures

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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures

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  CHAPTER IX     THE DEATH OF THE SECOND MAN-EATER        95
  CHAPTER X      THE COMPLETION OF THE TSAVO BRIDGE      108
  CHAPTER XI     THE SWAHILI AND OTHER NATIVE TRIBES     119
  CHAPTER XII    A NIGHT AFTER HIPPO                     133
  CHAPTER XIII   A DAY ON THE N'DUNGU ESCARPMENT         145
  CHAPTER XIV    THE FINDING OF THE MAN-EATERS' DEN      155
  CHAPTER XV     UNSUCCESSFUL RHINO HUNTS                168
  CHAPTER XVI    A WIDOW'S STORY                         176
  CHAPTER XVII   AN INFURIATED RHINO                     182
  CHAPTER XVIII  LIONS ON THE ATHI PLAINS                193
  CHAPTER XIX    THE STRICKEN CARAVAN                    210
  CHAPTER XX     A DAY ON THE ATHI RIVER                 221
  CHAPTER XXI    THE MASAI AND OTHER TRIBES              231
  CHAPTER XXII   HOW ROSHAN KHAN SAVED MY LIFE           247
  CHAPTER XXIII  A SUCCESSFUL LION HUNT                  264
  CHAPTER XXIV   BHOOTA'S LAST SHIKAR                    273
  CHAPTER XXV    A MAN-EATER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE       286
  CHAPTER XXVI   WORK AT NAIROBI                         293
  CHAPTER XXVII  THE FINDING OF THE NEW ELAND            300
                 APPENDIX                                323




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Heads of Eight Lions shot by the Author
    in British East Africa                                  Frontispiece
  Mombasa, from the Harbour                                            1
  The Native Quarter, Mombasa                                          2
  "Well-wooded hills and slopes on the mainland"                       3
  Vasco da Gama Street and Pillar                                      5
  "The best way to get three ... was by gharri                         6
  "I pitched my tent under some shady palms"                           7
  "Kilindini is on the opposite side of the island"                   10
  "The Place of Deep Waters"                                          11
  "A lucky shot brought down the huge bird"                           14
  "I slept that night in a little palm hut"                           15
  "This interminable nyika"                                           17
  "The river crossed by means of a temporary bridge"                  18
  Women of Uganda                                                     19
  The tent from which jemadar Ungan Singh was carried off             23
  "My own tent was pitched in an open clearing"                       29
  "We shared a hut of palm leaves and boughs"                         30
  "The camps of the workmen had also been surrounded
    by thorn fences"                                                  31
  "Railhead Camp, with its two or three thousand workmen"             33
  "The two wounded coolies were left where they lay, a piece of
    torn tent having fallen over them"                                35
  "A luncheon served in the wilds, with occasionally a friend
    to share it"                                                      43
  "It very soon became a great pet"                                   46
  "Heera Singh made a wild spring into the water to get clear
    of the falling stone"                                             47
  "The door which was to admit the lion"                              62
  "When the trap was ready, I pitched a tent over it"                 64
  "They found him stuck fast in the bushes of the boma"               70
  "Perched on the top of water-tanks"                                 73
  "I took up my position in a crib made of

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