30 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



so used to our threats as to treat them entirely as bluff 

 — consequently their poison was for the most part stale 

 and our losses consequently much fewer than they 

 would otherwise have been. 



The Nandi are the hereditary enemies of the Masai, 

 and certainly, as far as one can judge, had none the 

 worse of the frequent encounters between the two 

 tribes. On the plains the numbers of the Masai 

 would seem to have given them an advantage in their 

 traditional method of warfare ; but where there was 

 cover and the bow could come into use the Nandi 

 at least held their own. 



Like the Masai, Turkana, and Suk, the young 

 Nandi men are organised as a special class of warriors ; 

 and in the past they have undoubtedly regarded raiding 

 and war as essentially the business to which they had 

 been born. From a settler's point of view, however, 

 the future of the tribe is less a cause of anxiety than is 

 the case with the Masai. Unlike the latter, this tribe 

 have always had a tendency towards agriculture, and 

 this tendency is growing every day. It is not, perhaps, 

 too much to hope that before long the Nandi may 

 become entirely agricultural and pastoral, and further 

 that when their own Reserve gets filled up, they may 

 provide a further source from which outside labour 

 may be drawn. 



The Wa-Kamba form to my mind the intermediate 

 link between the sons of Esau and the sons of Jacob. 

 They inhabit the basin of the Athi and the large Kitui 

 district, and have during the last few years increased 

 in numbers and extended considerably. Apparently 

 the tribe have never been aggressively warlike, but 

 when attacked have defended themselves with success 

 both from the Masai to the north-west and the Gallas 



