MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



875 



reeds are thrust into the upper edges like a gridiron. On these are laid 

 wisps of grass and twigs completely disguising the hole and looking like 

 a smoothed path. The unwary animal plunges through this frail covering 

 and is hopelessly imprisoned in the wedge-shaped pit. 



The Andorobo keep no domestic animals but dogs. The rest of the 

 Nandi-speaking people keep dogs, cattle, sheep, and goats. The Nandi 



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498. SLIPS OF HARK USED EOR STORING THE ARROW POISON, WHICH, LIKE 

 BLACK PITCH, COVERS ONE OF THE HOLLOWED SLIPS 



have donkeys. Some of these tribes keep fowls, hut seldom eat them. The 

 Nandi employ their donkeys chiefly for carrying iron ore from the places 

 where it is dug out to the furnaces. Cattle are marked by their respective 

 owners. This is done by slitting the ears, or burning a line round the eye, 

 or curved lines round the body. Superfluous bulls are castrated. The 

 neck of the big breeding bull of the herd is generally hung with an iron 

 bell. Cattle are killed by a blow of the sword at the back of the neck. 

 Goats and sheep are held round the snout until they die of suffocation. 



