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bananas, ferns, trees that look like the magnolia, long 

 creepers that hang from high above and swing to the 

 tunes of the whispering winds, all go to make up this 

 mysterious, intriguing forest where many wild things 

 hide away. 



Leopards, giant forest hogs, and bush buck make 

 their homes in it, while in the tree tops many monkeys, 

 among them the rare and beautiful colobus, swing and 

 play. Through the sunht lanes below, butterflies and 

 other insects flit about, fit prey for the many birds 

 that dart in and out of the shadows. It is such a 

 forest as many people dream about but few ever see. 



Previous to 1905,^the Nandi tribe inhabited the whole 

 of the liighlands known as the Nandi plateau, a large 

 tract of land roughly bounded by the Uasin Gishu 

 Plateau extending to Mount Elgon on the north, by 

 the Nyando VaQey on the south, by the Elgeyo Escarp- 

 ment on the east, and by Kavirondo on the west. Since 

 that time, the entire tribe has been moved to the present 

 reserve which is a Kttle to the north of the escarpment 

 that bears their name. This move was made necessary 

 by continued attacks of Nandi Avarriors on the Uganda 

 Railway and upon other natives travehng along the 

 right of way. 



The Nandi are a fine, upstanding race greatly re- 

 sembhng the Masai in physical type. In talks with 

 different elders and warriors of the tribe, they have 

 told me that they are blood brothers to the Masai, 

 kinsfolk of the Turkana, Suk, and Samburu. In all 

 of these tribes one finds men and women with almost 

 Caucasian features. I have quite often found a man 

 that reminded me of someone at home. Some author- 

 ities class them as the remains of a Semitic race which 



