-* A Race of \Yarlike Shepherds : the Masai 



America, they found their greatest happiness in untram- 

 melled freedom. A \varlike people, they scorned mere 

 settlers and men of peace. Thus they lived their life 

 until the coming of the white man. Now their days of 

 predominance are over. Soon, probably, they will have 

 reached their downfall. It will be with 'hem as it has 



been with the red man. In truth, their ways do not tit 

 in with the spread ot civilisation over the veil. 



I) ut just as we all delighted as boys in the blood- 

 curdling talcs ot the Red Man there are many of us. 

 indeed, well on in years, who still so delight we cannot 

 but teel a certain amount o! sympathy \\iih this picturesque 

 and impressive people, who tor so main thousands ot 

 years have lived their unchan^in^ existence in the trecdom 

 ot the veil, practising consistently the virile virtues ot 



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