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live is full of flowers, so that honey abounds. Like 
the Wa-Kikuyu, they are fond of honey and their hives 
are made on the same plan as the Kikuyu honey- 
barrels. 
Ethiopian bees are very ferocious, and many explorers 
have had trouble with them. Macdonald describes 
them as pugnacious, and with good reason, for whilst 
An Ndorobo with large ear-buckets in .situ. 
engaged in surveying for the Uganda Railway his cara¬ 
van was attacked by bees in the Wakamba settlements. 
On one occasion when tbe men were collected after a 
general stampede caused by bees one man, a Msoga, 
was missing. AVhen found, “ his body, owing to the 
innumerable stings left in him, instead of smooth black 
skin, appeared covered with close brown fur.” The poor 
man was placed in the hands of a hospital assistant, but 
