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KVXTU NEGROES 



pi-act icullv pnitcftcil. The .)x ki'i>t is the liuiiipeil, short-horned variety. 

 Mutter is made from milk, ami is often used as a dressing for wounds. 



The Kavirondo, e-speeially in the \alley of the Nzoia, liinil (jd.rne with 

 the hel]) of (lows, driving the wild animals before them into a widely 

 extended net. which consists of a loui,^ rope fastened in a rough semi- 

 circle to trees or long poles. In-om this rope hang down numerous 

 runrdng nooses of stiing. These, at any rate, detain the creature.s long 



enough to enahle the men to ( le u[i with and spear them. They dig 



])its on the lianks of rivers 

 '' (covering the oritice with grass) 



to catch hi])[iopotamuses as they 

 ' leave the water, and they also 



rig uji over the hippopotamus 

 paths ro}ies and traps, by means 

 of winch a passing hippo loosens 

 a hea\ily weighted harpoon sus- 

 pendi'd o\er the path, which 

 then plunges into his back. 

 Elephants are killed by a large 

 numljer of hunters surrounding 

 one of these animals and attack- 

 ing it with assegais. Fish (of 

 which the Ka\irondo are ex- 

 tremely fond as an article of 

 di(dj are angled for with rod 

 and line, and are also caught in 

 traps. In all the Kavirondo 

 ri\ers there are Ijuilt \\\) at in- 

 tervals two converging walls of 

 stone, which are carried out into 

 the lied of the stream at an angle 

 of aliout sixty degrees. The 

 small space b^•tw(^erl tlie two st(.)ne dykes is tillt^d with ample tish-baskets. 

 The fish coining down-streani jiave their only exit blocked, and must, 

 perforce, fill the baski^s. 'flie snares for quails have already been 

 mentioned. These are usually springes, -with a noose of very fine string. 



Tli(^ Kavirondo are essentially an (u/ricaltund peopli', F)oth men and 

 women work in the fields with large iron hoes. As usual, their agriculture, 

 being of the negro order, has been rlestrnctive to forests. The whole of 

 Kavirondo was once covered witli dense forest of a rather West African 

 character, lint ti-(-es are now scarcidy ever seen, excejit in the river valleys. 

 The people w-ould hew down all the trees they could fell, and burn the 



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 KAVIKOXI 



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