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live is full of Hower.s, so that honey abounds. Like 

 the Wa-Kikuyu, they are fond of honey and their hives 

 are made on the same plan as the Kikuyu honey- 

 barrels. 



Ethiopian bees are very ferocious, and many explorers 

 have had trouble with them. Macdonald describes 

 them as pugnacious, and with o'ood reason, for whilst 



An Ndorobo witli large ear-buckets in sllit. 



engaged in surveying for the Uganda Eailway his cara- 

 van was attacked by bees in the Wakamba settlements. 

 (Jn one occasion when the men were collected after a 

 general stampede caused by bees one man, a Msoga, 

 was missing. When found, "his l)ody, owing to the 

 innumerable stings left in him, instead of smooth black 

 skin, appeared covered with close brown fur." The poor 

 man was placed in the hands of a hospital assistant, l)ut 



