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time, with the right to wander and graze their 

 herds. No other natives nor white men were 

 allowed to settle there. These districts, coincidental 

 with the Northern and Southern Game Reserves, 

 were well placed, as well as being of great extent, 

 and as they contain nearly the whole of the various 

 species of game of East Africa, it was a plan that 

 made a happy adjustment from more than one 

 point of view. But the arrangements and so-called 

 irrefutable promises of one Government are always 

 fragile things, and liable to be upset by another, and 

 so to-day we have seen the Likipia and other 

 northern lands, once given by the British Govern- 

 ment to the Masai " for all time," already taken from 

 them and handed over to the settlers. It is, there- 

 fore, only a matter of time when further areas 

 suitable to white settlement will be taken away, and 

 the Masai driven into the " back o' beyond." 



To-day the Southern Game Reserve, practically 

 stretching from the line to the old German border, 

 i. e. from Kilimanjaro to the forest country beyond 

 Kissi, where " fly " begins, is the great Masai 

 Reserve, and supports some thousands of Masai 

 with their flocks and herds, and there are only one 

 or two white settlers in the Kedong, with a trading 

 store on the Amala and one on the Narossara (Van 

 der Weyer's). 



In the western portions game is as plentiful as 

 in the reserve itself, and safaris are allowed to go 

 and hunt, but few, except those possessed of wagons 

 like ourselves, ever go beyond the Loita plains, 

 where the mass of game begins, owing to the 

 difficulties of food and transport. 



Here the Masai live in their little cow-dung- 



