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find them. I am sure Mr. Shauffaker* is right in saying, 

 that if he can but secure their alliance, if he can gain the 

 confidence of the Massai, more can be done with them, 

 than with any East African people. 



* Mr. Shauffaker and his brave and capable wife aided by two deaconnesses, all Americans 

 are members of the African Inland Missionary Society. Mr. Hurlbut is chief organizer and head of 

 that society in British East Africa of able , sensible, and devoted men. If any can succeed in mastering 

 the immense difficulties of this situation, these people surely will. They build their own houses. 

 Live on next to nothing and seemed to me the most practical and level headed men and women 

 (missionaries) I met in the country. The civil authorities of the Protectorate, enthusiastically wel- 

 come their aid and value their opinions. 



