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Updated: May 21, 2025
I heard one lion story that makes the man-eaters of Tsavo seem like vegetarians. It was told to me by a gentleman high in the government service a man of unimpeachable veracity. He says the story is absolutely true, but refused to swear to it. Once upon a time, so the story goes, there was a caravan of slaves moving through the jungles of Africa.
No longer was there a white market for their savage wares; but there was still a sufficient incentive for the taking of Numa alive. First was the necessity for ridding the jungle of man-eaters, and it was only after depredations by these grim and terrible scourges that a lion hunt was organized.
So long, however, as Railhead Camp with its two or three thousand men, scattered over a wide area remained at Tsavo, the coolies appeared not to take much notice of the dreadful deaths of their comrades. Each man felt, I suppose, that as the man-eaters had such a large number of victims to choose from, the chances of their selecting him in particular were very small.
Like Fearing, he had lain a month in the Slough of Despond, and had played, like him, the long melancholy bass of spiritual heaviness. With Feeble-mind, he had fallen into the hands of Slay-good, of the nature of Man-eaters: and had limped along his difficult way upon the crutches of Ready-to-halt.
Both Niâbon and I laughed at her fears the sharks were not man-eaters, as we knew by their black-tipped fins, though the species were dangerous when bad weather made the fish on which they preyed scarce; then they became vicious and daring enough, and would at times actually tear the oars out of the hands of a boat's crew.
"Why not? there are lots of big man-eaters about," and I incontinently reeled off half a page of statistics, more or less accurate, about the number of persons destroyed by snakes and wild beasts in the last year. "Of course most of those deaths were from tigers, and it is a really good action to kill a few.
Non-interference, indeed! International delicacy in the treatment of a tribe of cruel savages! A nation of man-eaters, forsooth, a nation! Why not apply the laws of nationality to every band of brigands who chances to have conquered an independent existence? Bah! The world is full of frivolous pretences, drunk with the poison-cup of political hypocrisy.
"I said we had not done with the thief-of-the-wood and the river, the man-robber, the slayer of babes." "Hassan! Do you mean that the Arabs are coming?" "Even so, O great one. They are well matched, the man-eaters and the man-stealers." "And whom do they go against?" "What should bring Hassan here but one thing, and that the fear of Muata?" "Humph!" muttered Mr. Hume.
Even if he could, there were the lions and the leopards and the hyenas, any one of which, as Tibo was well aware, was particularly fond of the meat of little black boys. So far the terrible white god of the jungle had offered him no harm. He could not expect even this much consideration from the frightful, green-eyed man-eaters.
Are the northern kingdoms of Europe bare of life because of the winter rigours? And then thought to myself, if that island have natives, I would rather encounter them as the savages of an ice-bound country than as the inhabitants of a land of sunshine and spices and radiant vegetation; for it is the denizens of the most gloriously fair ocean seats in the world who are man-eaters; not the Patagonian, giant though he be, nor the blubber-fed anatomies of the ice-climes.
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