Found this recently, may of interest to folk who have not been able to get hold of the book.

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/tsavo/main.html

Also, here's the link to the Field Museum's online exhibit:

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/default.htm



-Bob F.

I see these lions almost every day at lunch.
The taxidermy work on them is poor and they have shrunk in stature so dramatically it is hard to imagine them dragging away a bushbuck let alone over a 100 men.

Still I bet they were fearsome in their lifetime.

The hides were so bad that after several years on exhibit the Taxidermy work was redone, losing a foot or so on each lion. The manes became a little thin but lions in that area are said to have thin manes.

Thank You, Peter. A good find!