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ing pulled the flesh loose from the bones with her fixed 

 teeth. The Doctor attended to all three cases. The gun- 

 bearer recovered; both the Masai died, although the Doc- 

 tor did all in his power for the two gallant fellows. Their 

 deaths did not hinder the Masai 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 kinsfolk 

 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 exclusively 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 

 wilderness, 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 very early period 

 of palaeolithic 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 vertebrae of some animal 

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

 meat. 



From our carnp on the Guaso Nycro we trekked in a 

 little over four days to a point on Lake Naivasha where we 



