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themselves spend their time in (biiieing. singing, adorning themselves, 

 jmd milking luve. 



After a woman is married — tliat is to say, is regularly liouglit liv her 

 husband — she is supposed to remain faithful to liini, thougli it is not at 

 <dl infrequent that a Masai mav sanction her going with anv man, 

 especially if he be a friend or a guest. If unfaithfal without permissinn, 

 she might in old times have lieen elubl)ed to death, but as a general rule 

 a lireaeh of the marriage co\enant is atoned for by a payment on the part 

 of the adulterer. One way and another, by custom and liy dis2)0>iti(.in, 

 it inu^t. I think, be stated that the jNIasai women are \ery immoral. 



Miirrtai/e is simply the selection of a likely girl liy a retiring warrior, 

 nnd the handing over to her flither of a. number of cows, bullocks, goats, 

 sheep, and small additional gifts of honey, goat skins, and p(■rha]I^ iron 

 wire. After a girl is married she may not return to her father's \-illage 

 nide^s accompanied Ijy her husband. 



Nearly e\'erv old woman is ;i midwife, and husbands do not attend 



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tlie deliveries of their wives unless there is some serious comjilication 

 which threatens danger to life, when, in addition to the hnsliand. a 

 medicine man mav lie called in. About a year after the child is hont 



