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THE MASAI 
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‘ for all time ’ is being destroyed, and the unfortunate 
natives are being turned from a paradise into a desert 
to please our worthless countrymen. Let us stop the 
move.” And stop it they did. The Masai who had 
already moved were bundled back and the Home 
Government proceeded to satisfy themselves both of 
the bona fides of their own agents, and also of the fact 
that the Masai were genuinely ready to move. The 
whole process of interrogating the Chiefs was accord¬ 
ingly gone into all over again. Now the Masai, oddly 
enough, resembles his white brother in one thing, and 
that is his intense dislike of being, in the language of 
the East End, “ mucked about.” This time Legalishu, 
one of the principal Chiefs in the Northern Masai, said 
that he had had enough of moving, and that the new 
area was too small. The whole negotiations therefore 
fell through. 
Early in 1911, by a curious dispensation of 
Providence, Lenana died and left as his dying wish an 
instruction that the Northern Masai should come south 
and that the whole tribe should be once more united. 
Such dying wishes have great weight with this tribe, 
and influenced by it, and also possibly having forgotten 
some of their very justifiable resentment, Legalishu, 
and the other great Chiefs from the north came in of 
their own accord and expressed, not only the willing¬ 
ness, but the desire to move. A treaty, safeguarded 
with every formality, was drawn up and signed, and 
once again the move commenced. 
Such, briefly, has been the history of the relations of 
this tribe with white settlement and white Government. 
I find it difficult to believe that an unbiassed perusal 
can lead anyone to the opinion that the tribe has 
received any but the fairest treatment from their white 
