-* A Race of Warlike Shepherds : the Masai 



rinderpest which swept over Kast Africa two decades 

 a^o exterminated their cattle, and in a tew days man 

 and woman and child died of famine. The survivors 

 some hundreds of thousands must soon die otl, unable 

 to adapt themselves to any other modi; ot lite than that 

 to which they were born and bred. 



\\ e have here a striking illustration ot the wav in 



which an entire; race can disappear from the face ot tin- 

 earth. Barely a century a^'o the Masai enjoyed a period 

 ot Ljreat prosperity under their mighty chief Mbatyan, 

 the hero ot many legends. There is something inex- 

 pressibly melancholy in the sij_du ot the remnant of this 

 heroic 1 people ti^'htm^" desperately tor their life. 'I here 

 is a world ot difference between them and so main of 

 the unsympathetic mongrel races to be met \\ith in the 



