GLIMPSES OF EAST AFRICA AND ZANZIBAR 



The 01-Moruo live in luxury, with their wives 

 to cook and do the work for them, and they may 

 eat anything they fancy. Before marriage the girls 

 have not done any work, but afterwards their lot 

 becomes harder and harder as they grow older ; when 

 quite old all the hardest work is given to them, that 

 of carrying wood and helping to move camp and 

 so on. 



The Masai weapons of war are numerous and 

 interesting. On their shields they wear, in colour, 

 their coats of arms, that is to say, each district or 

 family has its own, and also they have special marks 

 for valour. Their shields are made of cow's hide 

 or buffalo's hide, the last being the better, and are 

 large and oval, painted in red and white. We 

 bought some, among which one or two were very 

 good. 



Spears and swords are also used. The best 

 spear we have, one with a very long steel blade and 

 end, and very evenly balanced, we bought from a 

 Masai who had killed a man with it, and to escape 

 the vengeance of his friends he enlisted in the 3rd 

 King's African Rifles, selling his spear and taking 

 to a rifle. Some blades are over three feet long ; 

 boys and old men have small oblong blades. The 

 Masai also use bows and arrows ; the scabbards for 

 their swords hang round their waists and are some- 

 times beautifully decorated with beads. They do 

 not make their own weapons, but get another tribe of 



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