THE FIRST HALF OF THE VOYAGE.

FROM NAPLES TO THE RED SEA, WITH A FEW SIDE LIGHTS ON INDIAN OCEAN TRAVEL Lion hunting had not been fraught with any great hardships or dangers up to this time.

The Mediterranean was as smooth as a mill-pond, the Suez Canal was free from any tempestuous rolling, and the Red Sea was placid and hot.

After some days we were in the Indian Ocean, plowing lazily along and counting the hours until we reached Mombasa.

Perhaps after that the life of a lion hunter would be less tranquil and calm.
The _Adolph Woermann_ was a six-thousand-three-hundred-ton ship, three years old, and so heavily laden with guns and ammunition and steel rails for the Tanga Railway that it would hardly roll in a hurricane.