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both the Masai died, although the Doctor did all in his 

 power for the two gallant fellows. Their deaths did not 

 hinder the I^lasai from sending to him all kinds of cases 

 in which men or boys had met with accidents. He 

 attended to them all, and gained a high reputation with 

 the tribe. When the case was serious, the patient's kins- 

 folk would usually present him with a sheep or war- 

 spear, or something else of value. He took a great 

 fancy to the Masai, as indeed all of us did. They are a 

 fine, manly set of savages, bold and independent in their 

 bearing. They never eat vegetables, subsisting exclu- 

 sively on milk, blood, and flesh, and are remarkably 

 hardy and enduring. 



Kermit found a cave which had recently been the 

 abode of a party of 'Ndorobo, the wild hunter-savages 

 of the M ilderness, who are more primitive in their ways 

 of life than any other tribes of this region. They live 

 on honey and the flesh of the wild beasts they kill ; 

 they are naked, with few- and rude arms and utensils ; 

 and, in short, carry on existence as our own ancestors 

 did at a ^^ery early period of I'akeolithic time. Around 

 this cave were many bones. Within it were beds of 

 grass, and a small roofed enclosure of thorn bushes for 

 the dogs. Fire-sticks had been left on the walls, to be 

 ready when the owners' wanderings again brought them 

 back to the cave ; and also very curious soup sticks, 

 each a rod with one of the vertebne of some animal 

 stuck on the end, designed for use in stirring their boiled 

 meat. 



From our camp on the Guaso Nyero we trekked 

 in a little over four days to a point on Lake Naivasha, 

 where we intended to spend some time. The first two 

 days were easy travelling, the porters not being pressed 

 and there being plenty of time in the afternoons to 



