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ing pulled the flesh loose from the bones with her fixed 
teeth. The Doctor attended to all three cases. The gun- 
bearer recovered; both the Masai died, although the Doc¬ 
tor did all in his power for the two gallant fellows. Their 
deaths did not hinder the Masai from sending to him all 
kinds of cases in which men or boys had met with accidents. 
He attended to them all, and gained a high reputation with 
the tribe; when the case was serious the patient’s kinsfolk 
would usually present him with a sheep or war-spear, or 
something else of value. He took a great fancy to the 
Masai, as indeed all of us did. They are a fine, manly set 
of savages, bold and independent in their bearing. They 
never eat vegetables, subsisting exclusively on milk, blood, 
and flesh; and are remarkably hardy and enduring. 
Kermit found a cave which had recently been the abode 
of a party of ’Ndorobo, the wild hunter-savages of the 
wilderness, who are more primitive in their ways of life 
than any other tribes of this region. They live on honey 
and the flesh of the wild beasts they kill; they are naked, 
with few and rude arms and utensils; and, in short, carry 
on existence as our own ancestors did at a very early period 
of palaeolithic time. Around this cave were many bones. 
Within it were beds of grass, and a small roofed enclosure of 
thorn-bushes for the dogs. Fire sticks had been left on the 
walls, to be ready when the owners’ wanderings again 
brought them back to the cave; and also very curious soup 
sticks, each a rod with one of the vertebrae of some animal 
stuck on the end, designed for use in stirring their boiled 
meat. 
From our camp on the Guaso Nyero we trekked in a 
little over four days to a point on Lake Naivasha where we 
