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the Masai form the most southerly group of the Nilotic tribes, 

 extending far away to the north, and are, so to speak, wedged 

 in amongst the Bantu tribes and the people of Kamasia, Suk, 

 Turkana, Karamoyo, and Lango, form a connecting link with 

 the Shilluks and Bari. 



The districts occupied by the Masai extend on the south 

 as far as S. lat. 6°, and are bounded on the east first by the 

 Upper Pangani, then by the Lederick or Kibonoto river, beyond 

 which the frontier line skirts round the northern base of Kili- 



WATEE-HOLE AT MASIMANI. 



manjaro to Kimangeli'a, whence it extends from Ngongo Bagds 

 and the western boundary of Kikuyuland to the western base of 

 Mount Kenia. The northern boundary may be said to extend 

 from about the junction of the Guaso ISTarok with the Guaso 

 Nyiro in a south-westerly direction, the extent of territory 

 owned by the Masai on the west being undefined, though it 

 msij be roughly said to coincide with 35° 4:0" E. long. 



construction are, however, associated certain special racial peculiarities, so that the 

 name has come to include a whole ethnographical group. 



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