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TO LAKE NAIVASHA 
[CH. IX 
both the Masai died, although the Doctor 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 kins¬ 
folk 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 exclu¬ 
sively 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 intended to spend some time. The first two 
days were easy travelling, the porters not being pressed 
and there being plenty of time in the afternoons to 
