-^ A Race of Warlike Shepherds : the Masai 



rinderpest which swept over East Africa two decades 

 ao-o exterminated their cattle, and in a few days man 

 and woman and child died of famine. The survivors — 

 some hundreds of thousands — must soon die off, unable 

 to adapt themselves to any other mode of lite than that 

 to which they were born and bred. 



We have here a striking illustration of the way in 



MASAI OL MORANI WITH SPEARS AND SHIELDS 



which an entire race can disappear from the face ot the 

 earth. Barely a century ago the ]\hisai enjoyed a period 

 of great prosperity under their mighty chief Mbatyan, 

 the hero of many legends. There is something inex- 

 pressibly melancholy in the sight of the remnant ot this 

 heroic people fighting desperately for their lite. There 

 is a world of difference between them and so many ot 

 the unsympathetic mongrel races to be met with in the 



