"*> A Race of Warlike Shepherds : the Masai 



\vho 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 

 in'full war-paint. When the astonished spectator inquired 



what all this meant, he replied in the best lierlin (ierman : 

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

 people." 



I shall never forget the answer one ol my Masai 

 Jriends vouchsafed to one ol mv carriers, who was struck 



