"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,