Places, Africa

Kenya

• TaleUasin Gishu and the Nandi forest, Kenya, 1909 to 1927

  The Nandi bear and the devil called Chemosit

  The first detailed account of the Nandi bear, printed in 1912, gives no year for the sighting. A 1909 book on the Nandi calls Chemosit a one-legged devil.

  

• CaseTsavo River, Kenya, 1898

  The Tsavo man-eaters: 28 counted in 1907, 135 by 1925

  In 1907 Patterson wrote that the Tsavo lions ate 28 Indian workers. In 1925, when they went on show in Chicago, his figure was 135.