CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



PA.OE 



We Start Housekeeping 44 



Arrival in Nairobi — Hotel life— Housekeeping — All's 

 history — Goanese cooks — Plague in Nairobi — 

 Baruku's presents. 



CHAPTER VI 



The Simple Life - 53 



Baruku's wives — Dinner party difficulties — My wild 

 Masai groom — Lion scares — Masai levies — Our 

 burning garden — Baboons — A native dressmaker — 

 King's birthday celebration — Baruku's elastic 

 religion — Pets — Oddities of the boys — Tick fever — 

 Burglars and hyaenas. 



CHAPTER VII 



•Christmas Customs and Others ------ 65 



All's greeting — Our new quarters — Wild animals visit 

 us — Fleas — Rains — Our Christmas— My gardener — 

 Snakes. 



CHAPTER VIII 



The Masai 72 



Mt. Ngong and the first medicine-man — The three 

 classes — Kraals — Masai of Nilotic stock— Dress and 

 ornaments — Bad eyes— Customs — Their dead — Milk- 

 woman — Immorality — Weapons — Woman's work. 



CHAPTER IX 



Various Matters including Pets and Insects - - - 86 



Locusts and locust-birds — Bees — Duke of Connaught's 

 visit — A wild Masai war dance — More plague — My 

 duiker — The mason hornet. 



