MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 81D 



medicine derived from herbs is mixed with it. The Masai women and 

 old nmrried men eat pretty much what they like, and are allowed to- 

 smoke tobacco ; but during pregnancy the women rarely touch meat, 

 consuming at that time enormous quantitie.s of butter and milk. They 

 also, when in this condition, eat fat, and believe that these oily substances 

 will lubricate the passages and make delivery easier. Honey is eaten by 

 every one who can get it. By mixing a little water with the honey an 

 intoxicating mead is made, which is much drunk by the old men. 



456. srKAUS OF .MASAI WAHKIKKS. (SOMK Of THE MEN' ARE I'l.AMNi. Ilii; -..vmI, ", 

 DRAUGHTS, ILLUSTRATED OX P. 795) 



Tlie foregoing remarks about food apply mainly to the pastoral Masai ; 

 the agricultural section does not hold quite so rigidly* to its special 

 observances far the food of the young men as distinguislied from that of 

 the elders or the women; and as these people are industrious agriculturists 

 and rear large crops of grain, pumpkins, and beans, their diet is largely 

 of vegetable substances, though they are as fond of meat as their pastoral 

 kinsmen and enemies. 



Among the pastoral Masai only the women and the married men are 

 allowed to smoke tobacco. Some of the ekhr men take tobacco mixed 

 with potash as snuff. 



The iceajjons of the Masai consist of spears and shields, bows and 



