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by this he bewitched their cattle, which at the time 
were dying in scores from rinderpest. So—in- 
stigated no doubt by. the all-powerful witch-doctor 
—they treacherously killed him. For my part, 
however, I found them not nearly so black as they 
““THE WOMEN OF THE WA KIKUYU CARRY THE HEAVY LOADS.” 
had been painted to me. I had about four hundred 
of them working at one thing or another at Nairobi 
and never had any trouble with them. On the 
contrary I found them well-behaved and intelligent 
and most anxious to learn. 
As is the case with all other African races, the 
women of the Wa Kikuyu do the manual labour of 
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