THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO
AND
Other East African Adventures
BY
Lieut.-Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.
WITH A FOREWORD BY
FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS
164 Pgs. of Pure Adventure and Terror
Excerpt
IT is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so often urged me to write an account of my adventures, that after much hesitation I at last determined to do so.
I have no doubt that many of my readers, who have perhaps never been very far away from civilization, will be inclined to think that some of the incidents are exaggerated. I can only assure them that I have toned down the facts rather than otherwise and have endeavored to write a perfectly plain and straightforward account of things as they actually happened.
It must be remembered that at the time these events occurred, the conditions
prevailing in British East Africa were very different from what they are to-day.