“ mynyata ” (village of huts) we passed on return to Lake Naivasha. 
the Masai during our absence. He ran into 
a large party of lions, killed two, and 
wounded a lioness which escaped after 
mauling one of his gun bearers. The gun 
bearer rode into camp, and the Doctor 
treated his wounds. Next day Mearns was 
summoned to a Masai kraal sixteen miles off 
to treat the wounds of two of the Masai; it 
appeared that a body of them had followed 
and killed the wounded lioness, but that 
two of their number had been much mal¬ 
treated in the fight. One, especially, had 
been fearfully bitten, the lioness having 
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 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 rep¬ 
utation with the tribe; when the case was 
serious the patient’s kinsfolk would usually 
present him with a sheep or war-spear, or 
522 
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 remark¬ 
ably 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. With¬ 
in 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 curi¬ 
ous soup sticks, each a rod with one of the 
vertebra of some animal stuck on the end, 
