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live is full of flowers, so that honey abounds. Like 

 the Wa-Kikuyu, they are fond of honey and their hives 

 are made on the same plan as the Kikuyu honey- 

 barrels. 



Ethiopian bees are very ferocious, and many explorers 

 have had trouble with them. Macdonald describes 

 them as pugnacious, and with good reason, for whilst 



An Ndorobo with large ear-buckets in .stVit. 



engaged in surveying for the Uganda Railway his cara- 

 van was attacked by bees in the Wakamba settlements. 

 On one occasion when the men were collected after a 

 general stampede caused by bees one man, a Msoga, 

 was missing. When found, " his body, owing to the 

 innumerable stings left in him, instead of smooth black 

 skin, appeared covered with close brown fur." The poor 

 man was placed in the hands of a hospital assistant, but 



