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cure, the latter is in this case the better if not the only 
hope. 
The natives of both sections are very much given 
to the excessive use of intoxicants, which fact it is 
advisable for employers to bear in mind. They are 
not particular as to whether it be of native or European 
manufacture. 
The Nandi , to whom are allied the Lumbwa and 
Kamasia tribes, occupy the southern portion of the 
Uasin Guishu plateau extending from the Nandi 
escarpment, which runs parallel to the railway line 
from Kipigori to Londiani, northwards for a distance 
of thirty miles. 
This tribe form the second-most important of those 
tribes which we describe as of the race of Esau. This 
importance is partly because the country they inhabit, 
known as the Nandi plateau, is one of the most beauti¬ 
ful and fertile portions of the Protectorate, and also 
because, though few in numbers, they have managed 
to be a very considerable thorn in the side of the 
Government. 
In old days before the completion of the Uganda 
Railway the caravan road lay through the Nandi 
country, and certainly in proportion to their numbers 
this tribe were as great a danger as their more 
celebrated neighbours the Masai, and through their 
agency a good many Europeans lost their lives. Later 
there have been at least three expeditions against the 
Nandi, one in 1900, another in 1903, and the last in 
1905. The first two were moderately and the last 
eminently successful. The warriors fight with spears 
and poisoned arrows, the latter a most unpleasant 
method of warfare. Luckily, in the last expedition we 
took the tribe unprepared—they had indeed become 
