870 MASAT, TURKAXA, SIJK, NANDT, ETC. 



the CDUcli. wliirli is oiilv aliout tliicc ;iii(l a half \\'r\ \i\ii,\\. Tlit^ furniture of 

 111.' liuls consists more or less of cookiug utensils, pots of grain, and the 

 \vea[)ons of the occupant, if lie he a nude. Shoit round billets of wood are 

 used as pillows at the head of the sleeping places. Small children sleep in 

 the same hut as their parents till then* reach the age of five or six years, 

 wlien a small hut is Imilt for them near the parents' dwelling. The huts 

 of the Mutei and Elgeyo people are different in structure from those of the 

 Nandi. Thev excavate a dwelling on the hillside (much as is dcme by 

 the cave-dwellers of Southern Tunis). The front of this artificial cave- 

 dwelling is filled u]) with thorn liushes. 



The Sal)ei and South Klgon people live a great deal on the produce of 



493. PLAN OF NAXDI INTKIUOK 



their banana cro})s. The rest of the Nandi peopk's are all agriculturists, 

 and cultivate mainly sorghum, eleusine, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and 

 tobacco. The Kanuisia w(ne formerly steady cultivators, but of late 

 years their C(juntry has been afflicted again and again with serious 

 droughts, and in many parts of the Kamjisia Hills the plantations aie 

 now abandoned, the people taking instead to a pastoral life, or becoming 

 entirely dependent on hunting for their food. The Andorobo never 

 cultivate, kec^p no domestic animals, and livt^ entirely by the chase. 

 Their faxourite food is the flesh of the colobus monkey, which they 

 ol.)tain from the dense forests on the Nandi riateau. All tJie Xandi 

 peoples, exce[)t }»erha|is those of iNIount Elgon, are great hunters, and eat 

 all living creatures, except the crowned crane (which they spare out of 

 admiration for its beauty), hya'uas, snakes, frogs, and carrion birds. They 



