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.
Tolaik sliežu licējiem sāka uzbrukt divi lauvas, ko iesauca par ” Cavo cilvēkēdājiem ” un kas nogalināja daudzus strādniekus; turklāt turpmākais ceļš bija jābūvē cauri Austrumāfrikas lūzumzonas necaurejamajiem apgabaliem.