With I'lashli^iit and Rifle ^ 



Under ordinary conditions carriers will nc\cr throw up 

 the sponge; their traditions forhid them to do this. I have 

 often known them to tall beneath a heav\- load, hut I hrive 

 scarcely ever known them abandon it to ^o and seek tor 

 water. On the contrary, it is the custom {i/as/z/n) for those 

 who arrive first at the camp to carry the replenished cala- 

 bash back to revive their friends {rafiki) lett behind, it 

 maybe over an hour's journey away. In the generous dis- 

 triluition of tbod among themselves the carriers are most 

 brotherly and helpful to one another. And under what- 

 ever conditions they find themselves, wet or dry, the blacks 

 know better than an)' how to tind the Ijest spots on the velt, 

 or to discover hidden sources of water, to spy out the rare 

 berrv-bearing shruljs, to find wood tcjr fuel where ap- 

 parentl)' no wood is to be seen, to light their camp-tires 

 cjuickly, and to contrive sheltered nooks for themselves 

 out of their own cloths and wraps. They know, too, how 

 to keejj off vermin by certain herbs, whose strong smell 

 our European nerves can hardly stand. 



Alfred l)rehm once said of the Tundra, the Asiatic 

 counterpart of Masai- Nyika, after he had experienced many 

 hardships there: " I shall never go l)ack to the Tundra!" 

 1 also ha\c a great dread ol" the Nyika. No northerner 

 will ever li\c' there tor long. 



Yet lh(xse who have learnt to know it are apt to hear 

 it callino; to \.\\vw\ aijain and ai^'ain ! 



