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disappeared from the scene, all these heavy carrion- 
birds roused themselves and flapped away to follow 
the retiring army of bandits. My men informed me 
that whenever the Masai are on the march they are 
Fig. 62.—Masai Camp. 
accompanied from place to place by a flight of vultures, 
storks, and crows, whom they religiously protect, 
for the services they render in removing offal from 
their camps. Whenever in this country you approach 
a shady spot, and see the branches of the trees loaded 
with vultures, be sure within that grove a party of 
Masai are eating roast beef or sucking the blood from 
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