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MASAI, TUKKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



the fat tail is not carried to such a development as among the Bahima or 

 in Southern Africa. Great care is taken of the lambs and kids till they 

 are about a month old. They are suckled by their mothers twice a day, 



454. MASAI SHEEP 



but in the interval and during the night are usually kept apart in round,. 

 beehive huts of open basketwork and thatched roofs, these huts being 

 raised on poles about two feet above the ground. When the lambs and 

 kids grow older, they are allowed first of all to wander freely about the- 



