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cure, the latter is in this case the better if not the only 

 hope. 



The natives of both sections are very much given 

 to the excessive use of intoxicants, which fact it is 

 advisable for employers to bear in mind. They are 

 not particular as to whether it be of native or European 

 manufacture. 



The Nandi, to whom are allied the Lumbwa and 

 Kamasia tribes, occupy the southern portion of the 

 Uasin Guishu plateau extending from the Nandi 

 escarpment, which runs parallel to the railway line 

 from Kipigori to Londiani, northwards for a distance 

 of thirty miles. 



This tribe form the second-most important of those 

 tribes which we describe as of the race of Esau. This 

 importance is partly because the country they inhabit, 

 known as the Nandi plateau, is one of the most beauti- 

 ful and fertile portions of the Protectorate, and also 

 because, though few in numbers, they have managed 

 to be a very considerable thorn in the side of the 

 Government. 



In old days before the completion of the Uganda 

 Railway the caravan road lay through the Nandi 

 country, and certainly in proportion to their numbers 

 this tribe were as great a danger as their more 

 celebrated neighbours the Masai, and through their 

 agency a good many Europeans lost their lives. Later 

 there have been at least three expeditions against the 

 Nandi, one in 1900, another in 1903, and the last in 

 1905. The first two were moderately and the last 

 eminently successful. The warriors fight with spears 

 and poisoned arrows, the latter a most unpleasant 

 method of warfare. Luckily, in the last expedition we 

 took the tribe unprepared — they had indeed become 



