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(a) Cockney, 
(b) Provincial. 
Though the nomad Masai and the agricultural 
Masai (Wa-kwavi) differ so much in habits they do 
not differ at all in language, other than where they 
may border on Bantu settlements and borrow a few 
Bantu words. If you ask the u Wa-kwavi ” of Mazindi 
what they are, they will reply at once, 44 Masai.” And 
if you ask a nomad Masai of the Ruvu, or elsewhere, 
what he calls his congeners of Mazindi—who, perhaps, 
a generation ago were fighting in the same clan— 
he will answer contemptuously, 44 Em-barawuio,” a 
feminine word of not very pleasant signification. 2 
44 Kwavi ” is supposed to be a corrupted version of 
44 El-oigob,” 44 the people of the soil.” This is a term 
used in common by Masai and Kwavi, but is more 
especially affected by the latter, as it implies a settled 
residence. 
Though the Masai of Mazindi and the Mkomazi 
valley speak their language with purity, whether agri¬ 
culturists or rovers, yet in race they certainly alike 
betray a mingling with alien people. In their midst 
are still residing helot tribes, of undecided relationships, 
who may represent the remnant of conquered and 
partially absorbed races, previously owners of the land. 
High above Semboja's citadel waves the blood- 
red Arab-flag of Zanzibar. Semboja is eager to own 
himself a vassal of Sayyid Barghash. When I went 
to see him on the morning of my arrival I found 
myself ushered into an African imitation of the 
2 He feels for his honest, plodding relative the same contempt that 
a Highland rover who was called Gow would evince for his cousin 
who settled as a merchant in the lowlands and translated his name 
into Smith. 
