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reeds are thrust into the upper edges like a gridiron. (in tlie^e are hrid 

 wisps of grass and twigs completely disguising the hole and looking like 

 a smoothed path. The unwary animal plunges through this frail covering 

 and is hopelessly imprisoned in the wedge-shaped pit. 



The Anr/orobo keep no t/oineslic iiniiiKih but dogs. The rest of the 

 Xandi-speaking people keep dogs, cattle, sheep, and (/oats. The Xandi 



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49c. SLIP.S OF liAliK U^KIl FOR STORING THE ARROW FOIMIX, WHICH, I. IKK 

 liLAI'K riTl'H, COVERS ONE OF THE HOLLOWEII SI.H'S 



ha\'e donk(n's. Some nf these tribes keep fowls, liut scliloiii eat tlioiii. Tlie 

 Nandi eni[iloy their donkeys chirtly for carrying irdu ure frcim the places 

 wl.ere it is dug "Ut to tlie furnaces. I'attle are marked hv their respective 

 owners. This is doiH' hv slitting the ears, oi' hurning a line round the e\e, 

 or cur\ed lines round the Itody. Supertluous bulls are castrated. The 

 neck of the liig breeding liull nf the held i^ Ljenerally hung with an ircju 

 bell. Cattle are killed by a blow of the sword at the liack (if tla- neck. 

 Goats and sheep are held round the snout until they die of >uffocation. 



