238 THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO CHAP. 
constantly moving from place to place following the 
game. Not long ago I sawa few of them in the 
neighbourhood of the Eldama Ravine: but these 
were more or less civilised, and the girls, who were 
quite graceful, had abandoned the native undress 
costume for flowing white robes. 
In the district from Nairobi to the Kedong 
River, and in the Kenya Province, dwell the Wa 
Kikuyu, who are similar to the Masai in build, but 
not nearly so good-looking. Like the latter, they 
use the spear and shield, though of a different 
shape ; their principal weapon, however, is the bow 
and poisoned arrow. They also frequently carry 
a rudely made two-edged short sword in a sheath, 
which is slung round the waist by a belt of raw 
hide. Their front teeth are filed to a sharp point 
in the same manner as those of nearly all the 
other native tribes of East Africa, with the excep- 
tion of the Masai. They live in little villages 
composed of beehive huts and always situated in 
the very thickest patches of forest that they can 
find, and their cattle kraals are especially strongly 
built and carefully hidden. On one occasion I 
managed after a great deal of difficulty and crawling 
on all-fours to make my way into one of these 
kraals, and was much amazed to notice what labour 
and ingenuity had been expended on its construc- 
tion. Unlike the Masai, the Wa Kikuyu have a 
