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and often wear many necklaces and ornaments and charms, 
the women generally wear a short skirt of some animal’s skin. 
1 hey weai nothing on their heads which they shave, but they 
have a curious custom of slitting the lobe of their ear and 
pulling the skin down until it almost touches the shoulder : 
in this aperture they place the most extraordinary things by 
way of ornament; a short bit of wood, or a bit of European 
money, an empty cartridge case or a bundle of string, while 
one fine Masai “ blood ” we met. thought himself no end of 
a dog with an old sardine tiix top and all. fixed in his ear! 
Many of the men stand well over six feet high, and they are 
a fine well-built race; all those 1 came in contact with were 
\ ei y tiiendlv and constantly used to come to our camps and 
stand gaping, open-mouthed, at the white man with undis- 
guised wonder and amazement. 
Other East African tribes I met were the Wakambu. Kikuu, 
the Kavirondo and the Wanderobo : the latter are the hunting 
tribe of East Africa, they are extremely shy of the white man, 
and though never hostile, seem nervous of having much to do 
with him : small settlements of this peculiar race of 
aborigines may be found in the gloomy depths of almost any 
large East African forest; one village I came to consisted of 
a thorn “ bonga,” or fence strong enough to prevent a Lion 
from breaking through and stealing any of the sto<.k : inside 
this zareba were six or eight tiny little round huts, built of 
sticks and leaves, with a small aperture by way of a door, the 
filth and dirt inside being indescribable. The Wanderobo 
are a very poor tribe, they seldom wear even the conventional 
fig-leaf, and are armed with a bow and some t wen tv arrows, 
and often carry a bit of rag, carefully tied up. which contains 
some strips of bark which they use for medicinal purposes, 
somewhat in the same way as we use quinine. 
After leaving Naivasha we retraced out steps and went 
down past a place called Limoru. the Mau Escarpment, 
across the Kapiti Plains to a place named Kallima Theki, 
which was the name of a small rocky kopje or hill, thickly 
covered with scrub and bush, with ravines and dongas running 
up its sides; before l arrived no less than four Lions had been 
