By this time, the construction workers were smarting from their encounter with the famous “man eaters of Tsavo, ” two lions that had killed many of the men’s colleagues, and the crew was facing the formidable terrain of the Great Rift Valley.
وكان عمال البناء آنذاك لا يزالون مصدومين نتيجة لقائهم « أكلة البشر في تساڤو » ،‏ اي الاسدين اللذين قتلا كثيرين من زملائهم .‏