Mrs. Cyril
Ward, Sir Guilford Molesworth, K.C.I.E.,
Mr. T.J. Spooner and Mr C. Rawson for their
kindness in allowing me to reproduce photographs
taken by them.
My warmest thanks are also due
to that veteran pioneer of Africa, Mr. F.C. Selous,
for giving my little book so kindly an
introduction to the public as is provided by the
"Foreword" which he has been good enough
to write.
J.H.P.
August, 1907.
FOREWORD
It was some seven or eight years ago that I
first read, in the pages of The Field newspaper,
a brief account written by Col. J.H. Patterson,
then an engineer engaged on the construction of
the Uganda Railway, of the Tsavo man-eating
lions.
My own long experience of African hunting
told me at once that every word in this thrilling
narrative was absolutely true. Nay more: I
knew that the author had told his story in a most
modest manner, laying but little stress on the
dangers he had run when sitting up at nights
to try and compass the death of the terrible
man-eaters, especially on that one occasion when
whilst watching from a very light scaffolding,
supported only by four rickety poles, he was
himself stalked by one of the dread beasts.
Fortunately he did not lose his nerve, and succeeded
in shooting the lion, just when it was on
the point of springing upon him. But had this
lion approached him from behind, I think it
would probably have added Col.
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