MASAI LAND. 
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blood thus drunk provided the salts so necessary in the 
human economy ; for the Masai do not partake of any 
salt in its common fornix This sanguinary draught con- 
cluded, they proceeded to gorge themselves on the flesh, 
eating from morning till night — and keeping their cook 
steadily at work. The half-dozen men were quite 
able to dispose of the entire animal in a few days, 
and then they returned to the kraal to resume their 
milk diet. 
MASAI VILLAGE. 
If they lived an ascetic life in the matter of food, they 
eoulcl not be said to do so in other ways. Life in the 
warriors’ kraal, as may easily lie conceived, was promis- 
cuous in a remarkable degree. They may, indeed, be 
described as a colony of free lovers. Curiously enough, 
the “ sweetheart ” system was largely in vogue ; though 
no one confined his or her attentions to one only. Each 
girl, in fact, had several sweethearts, and, what is still 
stranger, this seemed to give rise to no jealouiess. The 
most perfect equality prevailed between the Ditto and 
