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hunters form a different clan, called Kikuyu Wandorobo ; but many of these appear 

 to alternate between a hunting and an agricultural life. Their hunting-grounds are 

 chiefly on the Kenya, Kinangop, and Aberdare forest-clad mountains. Members of 

 other tribes also, such as the Nandi, hunt in the forests. 



It is not surprising, then, that the forest animals should be, more than all 

 others, wary and timid, for the tribes that hunt them are excessively cunning with 

 trap, snare, and pitfall, poisoned arrow, and drop spear; and, moreover, they can 

 walk silently enough in the forest, and make their way, almost naked, through the 

 thickest of country. At tracking they are, however, surprisingly weak, and once 

 away from their country they are but little use at any form of bushcraft. But of 

 these peoples more later. 



