872 MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



eat after the men have done. Honey is a most important article of diet of 

 all the Nandi-speaking people. In some districts they semi-domesticate the 

 wild bees by placing bark cylinders on trees for them to build in. From 

 honey is made an intoxicating mead. They also make a wine from the 

 sap of the wild date palm. Beer is made from the grain of eleusine and 

 sorghum. As a general rule fermented liquors are never drunk by the- 

 young unmarried women or the young men. Both sexes and people of all 



495. HOUSE OF SABEI PEOPLE, NORTH ELGON (SIMILAR TO THE DWELLINGS OP THE MASABA BANTU) 



ages use tobacco in one form and another. The fighting men take snuff,, 

 the old married men chew tobacco, and the old women smoke it. The' 

 Lumbwa people make tobacco juice by keeping macerated tobacco leaves, 

 soaked in water in a goat horn slung round the neck. Closing one 

 nostril with a finger, they tilt the head on one side, and then pour the- 

 liquid tobacco juice out of the horn into the other nostril. Both nostrils- 

 are then pinched for a few minutes, after which the liquid is allowed to- 

 trickle out. 



The nomad Andorobo people, besides killing innumerable colobus. 

 monkeys in the dense woods of the Mau and Nandi Plateaux (with 

 poisoned arrows), sally out into the plains of the Kift Valley, or range-, 

 over the opposite heights of Laikipia, following up the elephant, and 



