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THE MASAI AND OTHER TRIBES 



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heavy and uncomfortable : but no Masai woman 

 considers herself a lady of fashion without them, 

 and the more she possesses the higher does she 

 stand in the social scale. 



N'DEROBBO BOY. 



As a rule, the Masai do not bury their dead, as 

 they consider this custom to be prejudicial to the 

 soil ; the bodies are simply carried some little 



