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THE MASAI AND OTHER TRIBES 



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as cattle cannot thrive without good pasture, it is 

 not unnatural to find that they have a great 

 reverence for grass. They also worship a Supreme 



MASAI WARRIORS. 



Being whom they call N'gai, but this term is 

 also applied to anything which is beyond their 

 understanding. 



Perhaps the most curious of the customs of the 



