812 :\IASAI, TURKANA, StJK, NANDI, ETC. 



sense as the other Xegro tribes of the Protectorate. The grown-up men- 

 never inoU>t zebras, antelopes, or harmless wild beasts, though boys may 

 sometimes capture the fawns of gazelles, and are also given to the 



4SO. HOUSES OF THE AGRICULTURAL MASAI (ENJAMUSi) 



shooting of birds with arrows, as birds' feathers are required for certain 

 of their ceremonies or for the making of head-dresses or capes for the 

 warriors. The ^Masai, however, regard the buffalo, eland, and kudu (the 

 ela.nd especially) as being closely related to their own cattle — in fact, 

 the buffalo they regard as simply the wild ox, and the eland as being a. 

 thorough bovine. ^The buffalo is now nearly extinct in the countries- 

 inhabited by the 3Iasai, but in former times they would attack it with 

 spears (many warriors taking part in the hunt) and kill it in order to 

 obtain leather for making their shields. The eland and kudu are not far 

 off extinction also, but in former days the ]\Jasai ate the flesh of the eland 

 and killed the kudu in order to obtain the horns of the male, which are 

 in great request as trumpets. The pastoral [Masai not only do not fish in 

 any of the lakes and rivers, but they regard fish as a most unwholesome 

 food. The agricultural Masai obtain fish by trapping and spearing, and 

 eat it in much the same way as do their Bantu neighbours. The 

 agricultural Masai also keep a few fowls, and eat them, together with 



