Monday, February 18, 2013
Cactus Tours and Safaris (Mombasa, Kenya): MAN EATERS OF TSAVO
Cactus Tours and Safaris (Mombasa, Kenya): MAN EATERS OF TSAVO: In March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. The project was led by Lt. Col. John Henr...
MAN EATERS OF TSAVO
In
March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo
River in Kenya. The project was led by Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson.
During the next nine months of construction, two maneless male Tsavo
lions stalked the campsite, dragging
Indian workers from their tents at night and devouring them. Crews tried
to scare off the lions and built campfires and bomas of thorn fences
around their camp for protection to keep the man-eaters out, to no
avail; the lions crawled through the thorn fences. After the new
attacks, hundreds of workers fled from Tsavo, halting construction on
the bridge. Patterson set traps and tried several times to ambush the
lions at night from a tree. After repeated unsuccessful endeavors, he
shot the first lion on December 9, 1898. Twenty days later, the second
lion was found and killed. The first lion killed measured nine feet,
eight inches (3 m) from nose to tip of tail. It took eight men to carry
the carcass back to camp. The construction crew returned and completed
the bridge in February 1899. The exact number of people killed by the
lions is unclear. Patterson gave several figures, overall claiming that
there were 135 victims
Friday, February 15, 2013
Cactus Tours and Safaris (Mombasa, Kenya): BUDGET SAFARI
Cactus Tours and Safaris (Mombasa, Kenya): BUDGET SAFARI: Cactus tours and safaris offers budget safaris.
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