SLOPES OF ELGON 
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the latter is protected by a narrow rawhide covering similar 
to the Suk. 
Their shields are of the Nandi and also Kitosh patterns. 
They have bows and arrows, the latter tipped with the keliot 
poison. The usual type of Dorobo elephant spear, weighted 
at both ends, is found among them. The enemy they consider 
most to be reckoned with are the Koromoja, small parties 
of whom have been seen south-east of Elgon within the year. 
At the present time they are very anxious to return to their 
old country on the Rongai and Keliondet rivers, as they are 
getting uncomfortably crowded by the Kitosh settlers and 
the grass is getting eaten down. Up till now, by the 
exercise of a rigorous quarantine, they have entirely escaped 
the present outbreak of rinderpest. 
This may have been due to the expressed intention of 
Kiptolulia of slaughtering any animals brought near his own. 
A very noticeable feature of the tribe, although they are 
hardly touched with civilisation, is their courtesy and politeness. 
Their speech appears to be Nandi or very closely allied 
to it. Masai and Bantu Kavirondo are also spoken and 
understood by nearly all the tribe. 
A genealogy of the chiefs is appended : 
Sangufc 
Kipsambo 
I 
Kitariah Kapsangut 
Kipitek 
Kiptolulia (Arap Kipitek) present chief Arap Sangalu 
j (by another wife) 
Tendet Arap Kembe others bas sons 
has issue (young) 
The El-kabeywa and Chebogos 
These people, of whom Arap Sangalu is the recognised 
head, comprise a rather heterogeneous lot of tribes. They 
are all forest-dwellers with the habits and speech of Dorobo. 
