872 MASAI, TURKANA, StJK, NANDI, ETC. 



eat after t lie iiicii liave clout', lloiwij '\!^ a most important article of diet of 

 all the Xaiidi-spcakiiig ])eople. In some districts they semi-domesticate the 

 \vil(l bees bv placing bark cylinders on trees for them to build in. From 

 honey is made an intoxicating mead. They also make a ivine from the 

 saj) of the wild date ])alm. Beer is made from the grain of eleusine and 

 sorghum. As a general rule fermented liquors are never drunk by the 

 young unmarried women or the young men. Koth sexes and people of all 





495. HOUSE OF .S.VBEI PEOPLE, NORTH ELGOX (SIMILAR TO THE DWELLINGS OF THE MASABA BAXTU) 



ages use fohacco in one form and another. The fighting men take snuff,. 

 the old married .men chew tobacco, and the old women smoke it. The 

 Lumlnva ])eople make tobacco juice by keeping macerated tobacco leaves 

 soaked in water in a goat horn slung round the neck. Closing one 

 nostril with a finger, they tilt the head on one side, and then pour the 

 liquid tobacco juice out of the horn into the other nostril. Both nostrils, 

 are then pinched for a few minutes, after which the liquid is allowed to 

 trickle out. 



The nomad Andorobo ](eo})le, besides killing innumerable colobns. 

 monkeys in tlie dense woods of the Man and Nandi Plateaux (with 

 poisoned arrows), sally out into the plains of the Kift Valley, or range 

 over the opposite heights of Laikipia, following up the elephant, and 



