The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
RAILROAD BUILDING AMONG WILD
 BEASTS.
Dangers That Reset Workers on the Cape to Cairo Route-CrOcOdiies and Lions Particularly Ra--
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and Lions Particularly Raw
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 From South Africa.
 The building of the bridge at Vfc- toria Falls and the Cape to Cairo Rail- way has brought a great many peo- pie together at this spot where there were previously no houses and, indeed, no one but an occasional traveller or hunter. Besides the birds and the but terflies and the fish the chief living animals were lions and elephants and Appropriateness and crocodiles and jacka1s and hyenas.
 The crocodiles were found to be so numerous--as many as thirty being together sometimes-tnat they had to be killed in great numpers for the safety of the people at work. Che Is known to have killed a man and a wo- man, and was itself only killed after 1t had seized another man. native woman was taking water from the riv- CT, when the crocodile knocked her in with its tall, seized her in its hor- rid mouth and dragged her away.
 Her husband determined to be aveng- ed and for several nights waited In canoe with loaded gun. He, too, dis appeared. and 1t is thought that the crocodile knocked him out of the ca noe and took him to Its hole under the bank.
 A week later it got another man and carried him to an island. Here it's victim got hold of the reeds and strong grass and screamed with all his might. and gang of men with browbars went to rescue him. This they suc- ceeded in doing and also staying the dangerous monster.
 One of the lions killed had also filled up the measure of its iniquity. The scene of its depredations was a native village north of the falls. In hut of reeds a woman was sitting. when the lion walked in and seized her. carrying her away to his lair in the bush Then he fancied an OK in an inclosure with other cattle and don- keys
 The lion, failing to get into the inclosure, so frightened the animals that they rushed in a mass from end to end, and their weight upon the palisading broke 1t down. They rush. ed out through the opening. which was just what the lion wanted. ...-.
 After the OK he selected donkey and then a sheep and another OK. The natives became panic-stricken until some white men told them they would sit up all night for the lion ahd shoot him. The lion camc and got away with another OK, for the white men had fallen asleep. However, they were able to track him.
 It was important that having prom ised to kill the lion they should do sb, for that is the secret of the white mans power over the native-never to break his word. So they set off to the thick bush, whither the lions tracks led them. There they came upon him and killed him with one bullet Near by was the carcass of an OK and a little further in the bush. in a sort of tunnel of impenetrable thorn, were the enawed bones-the remains of some of his former victims.
 A young hippopatamus riding on its mothers back when she was shot was saved and cared for by one of the men. These animals are very danger ous to canoe men, for in returning to the surface to blow they often come up right under the canoe and upset it. The baby was thriving very well when last heard of. He escaped from his incIosure once. but came back very hungry as was evident from the ravenous way in which he applied him self to his food.