-* A Race of Warlike Shepherds: the Masai 



who knew him, no longer in civilised garb, but smeared 

 all over with red ochre, his hair grown long and worn 

 in plaits with a sort of pigtail " ol daiga," as they call 

 it dripping with grease, in company with another Masai 

 irf tull war-paint. \\ hen the astonished spectator inquired 



A MASAI AND HIS OX 



what all this meant, he replied in the best Berlin German : 

 " I have decided to go back and live among my own 

 people." 



I shall never forget the answer one of my Masai 

 friends vouchsafed to one of my carriers, who was struck 



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