-^ A Race of Warlike Shepherds : the Masai 



America, they found their greatest happiness in untram- 

 melled freedom. A warlike people, they scorned mere 

 settlers and men of peace. Thus they lived their life 

 until the coming of the white man. Now their days of 

 predominance are over. Soon, probably, they will have 

 reached their downfall. It will be with them as it has 





MASAI WOMEN 



been with the red man. In truth, their ways do not fit 

 in with the spread of civilisation over the velt. 



But just as we all delighted as boys in the blood- 

 curdling tales of the Red Man — there are many of us. 

 indeed, well on in years, who still so delight — we cannot 

 but feel a certain amount of sympathy with this picturesque 

 and impressive people, who for so many thousands of 

 years have lived their unchanging existence in the freedom 

 of the velt, practising consistently the virile virtues of 



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