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UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN 



women and children went off with their captors, in spite of 

 the strict watch kept by our leader. I liberated myself not a 

 few, which I happened to see as they were being carried off. 

 It was not always easy to persuade the captive woman to leave 

 her native captor ; she naturally imagined that the white man 

 wanted to seize her as his slave. She evidently thought, that 

 under the circumstances the black warrior who had captured 

 her had a better right to possess her. 



KAVIRONDO HELLOWS, WOODEN SHIELD, AND WAR-HELMET. 



It was at the capture of a village that I witnessed the 

 cruel lust of blood, which is said to exist in every Masai. Two 

 little urchins, four or live years old, attempted to escape from 

 one of the gates ; but finding the enemy present everywhere, 

 they ran round the village along by the trench, trying to find 

 a means of re-entry. In the meanwhile, two of our Masai allies 

 had rushed forward from the besieging hordes. 



A Masai on the war-path is a horrid object. He is usually 

 naked. Round his waist he wears a broad leather belt carrying 

 a long sword in a leather scabbard. Very often he has also a 

 knobkerry, usually of some hard wood, but I have one in my 



