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THE PEOPLE ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN 
Included among them probably are aboriginal Dorobo, but 
many are, or their fathers or grandfathers were, refugees and 
stragglers from other tribes, i.e. El-geborit, Nandi, El-keyo, 
El-kony, Sengwerr, Kasmania, Uasin-Gishu Masai, Kisartok, 
Sabei, and possibly even Suk. 
They have been forced to adopt a Dorobo’s life from either 
poverty caused by famine, disease, or war, or have fled from 
their tribes for some other reason. 
Their speech appears to be a Nandi dialect similar to that 
spoken on the Mau, though some words are not the same, 
i.e. kebau, their word for rhinoceros — as opposed to kichanet, 
and the word used for leopard appears to be chablcmget, 
which is Nandi, the Mau Dorobo word melilda not being 
understood. (The Mau Dorobo use both words.) 
There are, as among all Dorobo, different degrees of skill 
in hunting in different members of the tribe. The game mostly 
sought for are rhinoceros and elephant, although giraffe, buffalo, 
and even buck, such as hartebeeste, are successfully killed. 
A certain number of giant pig are killed by them. The staple 
food is honey, the forest being all portioned out in areas, 
the said areas belonging to certain families. Good beehives 
are constructed, and wild honey, especially at the foot of the 
mountain, is very plentiful. Arap Sangalu stated that his 
family take ten to eleven nests of bees every day to support 
themselves, but this may be an exaggeration. Bee stings 
have apparently no effect on these people, and it is apparently 
immaterial whether they use smoke or not in extracting the 
honey. The head, however, is usually covered with the fur 
cape, as they state that they are afraid of getting their eyes 
stung. 
In the forests an animal much sought after for its flesh 
is a variety of Sykes’s monkey, which is very plentiful. 
They are skilful weavers of wicker-work, and after the 
people at the foot of Elgon have harvested their grain the 
El-kabeywa bring down baskets constructed of bamboo slips 
in exchange for flour. Their dwelling-places are the usual 
temporary Dorobo form of hut, but Arap Sangalu, who is 
the possessor of some cattle and goats which are kept above 
10,000 feet, has several large flat huts constructed of interlaced 
