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among his sons, and each one weaves his portion into a chignon. In 

 this chignon is a hollow bag in which is put all a man's portable pos- 

 sessions that he prizes most — his snuff box, ornaments, etc. 



"The Karamojo people who dwell to the west of Lake Rudolf do 

 not go in so much for chignons, but their favorite ornament is to make 

 a hole through the lower lip and to wear in it the cone of some crystal. 



"Among the dense forests, the game-haunted wilderness, and un- 

 jfrequented plateaux, wanders a mongrel nomad race, the Andorobo, 

 'who represent a mixture of Nandi, Masai, and some antecedent negro 

 race of dwarfish, Bushman stock. These Andorobo reproduce in a 

 most striking manner the life which we may suppose to have been led 

 by our faraway ancestors or predecessors in the earliest Stone Ages. 

 They lead, in fact, very much the life that the most primitive types 

 of man led in Great Britain and France in the farback days of big 

 animals, possibly before the coming of the glacial periods. They live 

 entirely by the chase, often consuming the flesh of birds and beasts 

 uncooked. Though they commit considerable devastations among the 

 game of the province, they are a picturesque feature when encountered, 

 and a striking illustration, handed down through the ages, of the life 

 of primitive man not long after he had attained the status of humanity 

 and had acquired a knowledge of the simplest weapons. 



"Lake Naivasha, one of the lakes of the Rift Valley, is probably 

 the center of a district where President Roosevelt will spend some time, 

 because there are some very interesting things to be seen and possibly 

 some remarkable animals to be obtained there.* The western side of 

 Lake Naivasha has picturesque mountains, which have to be ascended 

 by the Uganda Railway, further north than Lake Naivasha, at con- 

 siderable difficulty and expense. Here the railroad is carried to an 

 altitude of 8,300 feet before it begins to descend the western slope of 

 the plateau. 



"Lake Naivasha is almost in the middle of the western Masai 

 country. The dwellings of the cattle-keeping Masai are small flat- 

 roofed structures. The Masai w^omen are scrupulously clothed, orig- 

 inally in dressed skin, but to-day often in cloth. They are sharply dis- 



*It may be said that the ex- President spent considerable time here and had his most 

 thrilling adventure on the waters of this lake. This we have elsewhere described. 



