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NEW AFRICA. 
The Masai villages are still built in the form of a circle, surrounded by a 
strong thorn fence, and the cattle are carefully herded within. The huts are 
made of bent boughs and the roofs plastered with cow dung. Although the 
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YOUNG MAN HONORED FOR KILLING A LION. 
dresses of the men and women are in the transformatory period, they generally 
retain their old-time characteristics. The women wear a profusion of string 
beads and anklets of iron and brass, with a small apronlike garment in front 
