There are many great moments played on the stage of history, and one of these took place in east Africa in 1871.
No bands played; no cannons were fired. There were no waving banners, and no sabers flashed as armies charged, nor did the world even know about this historic moment in time until weeks after it had happened.
A motion picture producer would never have selected this site for the c****x of his multi-million-dollar production. In 1871 television and radio were not factors to be considered, and even the greatest newspapers were sometimes months late in reporting news from the far-flung frontiers.
The heat was unbearable. In the distance, the trumpeting of elephants, the roar of a lion, and the growl of a man-eating tiger blended with the orchestration of wild birds and other jung
