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TRAVELS m EASTERN AFRICA 



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cattle began to die, those villages which first suffered 

 from this cause banded and raided their more fortu- 

 nate neighbours. Thus there sprung up an inter- 

 necine war, which destroyed nearly all the warriors 

 inhabiting the country of the Masai north of Kili- 

 manjiro. According to my informants, there were 

 but two bands of Masai at that time in all this terri- 

 tory. One of these two bands, by far the larger, 

 occupied a place called Kinangop, lying to the north 

 of Lake Naiwasha. This division of the Masai was 

 called the Leburego. They had proved most success- 

 ful in the wars following upon the death of the cattle, 

 and at this time they had sufficient sheep and goats 

 to support life. 



Another party of Masai, occupying three villages, 

 and numbering perhaps 4000 in all, settled with the 

 Kythere people, who inhabited a portion of the coun- 

 try lying between the Jombeni range and Mount 

 Kenya. The latter, besides having sheep and goats, 

 sustained life by small cultivation of the soil, and 

 were fast becoming merged in the people whom they 

 joined. However, they retained their racial charac- 

 teristic of ferocity to such an extent that traders 

 dared not visit them. With these Masai at Kythere 

 were two bands of Wanderobbo, who were very suc- 

 cessful elephant-hunters. From the fact that they 

 had no opportunity of disposing of their ivory to 

 traders, they were at this time supposed to have vast 

 stores of ivory in their possession, and likely to prove 

 a prize to the first visiting caravan. 



Besides these two large bands of Masai, numbers 

 of women and little children, who had survived the 



