260 THROUGH MASAILAND TO THE BORDERS OF KIKUYU 



the huts are built, for the night, the ground is always covered 

 with dung. 



After not quite three hours' march we camped by the little 

 Gruaso Kidongoi or Kedong, a stream springing from the 

 eastern side of the Doenye Erok and ending in a small swamp 

 after an easterly course of about a mile and a half or two miles. 

 Guaso, wasso, and ngare all mean water, brook, or river, and 

 Kidongoi signifies quiver, a name it owes to the fact that the 

 district through which it flows is overgrown with a species of 

 branched euphorbia, from the stems of which the natives make 

 their quivers. 



The Masai, who at once came to our camp, were at first 

 very surly, chiefly on account of some diseased cattle we had 

 with us. To pacify them we let them pick out the affected 

 animals themselves to be slaughtered. There were four alto- 

 gether. 



There were a great many Masai in this district, living chiefly 

 in the undulating plain on the east of the mountain. As they 

 never hunt, there is an immense amount of game in the neigh- 

 bourhood, zebras, antelopes, and gazelles grazing close to the 

 herds of cattle, as if they felt safer near them. 



Count Teleki would have liked to press on the next day, 

 but the traders wanted to remain to buy ivory, so for their 

 sakes we stopped two days longer. 



In some of the ravines on the mountain there were settle- 

 ments of the Wandorobbo, that remarkable tribe of hunters, 

 who live in small scattered parties with no connection with 

 each other, throughout the greater part of Masailand. We 

 met a few of them for the first time during our march alono- 

 the Pangani. The word Ndorobbo means in Masai lan^uao'e 

 poor folk without cattle or other possessions, and traders have 

 added the Bantu Wa as a sign of the plural, calling them the 

 Wandorobbo. In general appearance they are not unlike the 



