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MASAI, TUKKANA, STJK, NANDI, ETC. 



442. A MASAI WARRIOR (NAIVASHAJ 



south. The re- 

 mainder of the 

 race, which culti- 

 vates the soil 

 (keeping flocks 

 and herds as well), 

 is reduced to a 

 small but increas- 

 ing remnant of the 

 Givcis' Ngishu,the 

 Nyarusi (or En- 

 jdmusi) INlasai at 

 the south end of 

 Lake Baringo, and 

 the perishing Bur- 

 kenejion the south 

 and south-east of 

 Lake Rudolf. 



The true 

 Masai as a race 

 are tall , well-made 

 ■people, slender 

 and lissom, with 

 no exaggerated 

 muscular develop- 

 ment, and little or 

 no tendency to 

 corpulence. They 

 are long limbed, 

 and the feet and 

 hands are re- 

 latively greater 

 than among Euro- 

 peans, though the 

 feet are smaller 

 and better formed 

 than among the 

 Bantu Negroes. 

 They have no 

 marked progna- 

 thism, and the 

 nose is sometimes 



