iv THE MASAI 



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' for all time ' is being destroyed, and the unfortunate 

 natives are being turned from a paradise into a desert 

 to please our worthless countrymen. Let us stop the 

 move." And stop it they did. The Masai who had 

 already moved were bundled back and the Home 

 Government proceeded to satisfy themselves both of 

 the bona fides of their own agents, and also of the fact 

 that the Masai were genuinely ready to move. The 

 whole process of interrogating the Chiefs was accord- 

 ingly gone into all over again. Now the Masai, oddly 

 enough, resembles his white brother in one thing, and 

 that is his intense dislike of being, in the language of 

 the East End, w mucked about." This time Legalishu, 

 one of the principal Chiefs in the Northern Masai, said 

 that he had had enough of moving, and that the new 

 area was too small. The whole negotiations therefore 

 fell through. 



Early in 191 1, by a curious dispensation of 

 Providence, Lenana died and left as his dying wish an 

 instruction that the Northern Masai should come south 

 and that the whole tribe should be once more united. 

 Such dying wishes have great weight with this tribe, 

 and influenced by it, and also possibly having forgotten 

 some of their very justifiable resentment, Legalishu, 

 and the other great Chiefs from the north came in of 

 their own accord and expressed, not only the willing- 

 ness, but the desire to move. A treaty, safeguarded 

 with every formality, was drawn up and signed, and 

 once again the move commenced. 



Such, briefly, has been the history of the relations of 

 this tribe with white settlement and white Government. 

 I find it difficult to believe that an unbiassed perusal 

 can lead anyone to the opinion that the tribe has 

 received any but the fairest treatment from their white 



