. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e developed and uti-lized by building railroads, the diflferentpowers have been engaged in an inter-national railroad building race in theBlack Continent that has completelytransformed the face of the land. From portation purposes. Several times stagelines were established in populous partsof South Africa to accommodate thetrafTic, but the horses were killed off bythe tsetse flies until the whole enterprisehad to be abandoned. Mules and otherbeasts of burden were tried with similarresults. Th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e developed and uti-lized by building railroads, the diflferentpowers have been engaged in an inter-national railroad building race in theBlack Continent that has completelytransformed the face of the land. From portation purposes. Several times stagelines were established in populous partsof South Africa to accommodate thetrafTic, but the horses were killed off bythe tsetse flies until the whole enterprisehad to be abandoned. Mules and otherbeasts of burden were tried with similarresults. The only horse, camel or mulethat proved absolutely immune to thebite of tsetse fly was the locomotive, far as heard from, the automobile en-joys similar immunity from this terribleflea bite. So the steam locomotive is rapidlymaking its way throughout the heart ofAfrica, penetrating the inland districts,connecting the gold and diamond mineswith Cape Town, and crossing the greattropical belt of middle Africa, and evenfollowing the footsteps of Stanley andDr. Livingstone in the lake rerjion. It. DESTROYED BRIDGE OVER THE COLENSO RIVER. AND TEMPOR.\RY RAII,W.\VTRESTLE AND FOOT BRIDGE. SOUTH AFRICA. 9,000 miles of railroad to nearly 15,000within five years is a high record in apioneer, uncivilized, and half-exploredcountry that stands almost alone in his-tory. Africa is pre-eminently the land of thestrange and unexpected. Its jungles arefilled with the greatest array of wild, sav-age animals; its forests and plains peo-pled with black races which have beenalmost continually at war among them-selves or with the pioneer whites in thepast; its streams and great inland seashave yielded swarms of strange fish andamphibious animals; while its deserts,woods and swamps have teemed withmultitudes of flies and insects that madelife miserable to man and beast. The tsetse fly has rendered horsefleshan expensive luxury, and practically lim-ited the value of this beast for trans- will only
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