-* A Race of \Yarlike Shepherds : the Masai 



rinderpest which swept over East Africa t\vo decades 

 ago exterminated their cattle, and in a few clays man 

 and woman and child died of famine. The survivors- 

 some hundreds of thousands must soon die off, unable 

 to adapt themselves to any other mode of life than that 

 to which they were born and bred. 



\Ve have here a striking illustration of the way in 



MASAI OL MORANI WITH SPEARS AND SHIELDS 



which an entire race can disappear from the face of the 

 earth. Barely a century ago the Masai enjoyed a period 

 of great prosperity under their mighty chief Mbatyan, 

 the hero of many legends. There is something inex- 

 pressibly melancholy in the sight of the remnant of this 

 heroic people fighting desperately for their life. There 

 is a world of difference between them and so many of 

 the unsympathetic mongrel races to be met with in the 



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