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fierce semi-nomads, spreading far and wide in tlaeir 
raids, though retaining a certain tribal district in 
which they make a more or less permanent abode. 
There are the Wa-kwavi of En-jemsi and the district 
of Lake Baringo ; of Laikipia; Kosova and Lumbwa, 
near Kavirondo. There are also the Wa-kwavi of 
Arusa and Meru, near Kilima-njaro, and of the Rnvu 
river, and Nguru in the south. The principal Masai 
clans are those of Sigirari, Kisongo, Sogonoi, Ngiri, 
and Laitokitok, in the vicinity of Kilima-njaro, and of 
Matumbato, Kaputei, Kinahgop, Dogilani, En-guaso 
Eh-gisu—(Cattle-river)—districts stretching to the 
north and west of the great snow-mountain. Thomson 1 
considers the Masai of Kilima-njaro to be the purest 
in blood, and the most free from foreign admixture. 
To the extreme north of the district under review 
certain peoples have been made known to us by 
Thomson’s explorations, such as the Nandi, Suk, and 
Kamasia tribes, which, according to this distinguished 
traveller’s observations, would seem to be related in 
language and race with the Masai, and help to fill up 
the blank between the southern members of that 
family and their distant relatives, the Latuka and 
Bari, in the valley of the White Nile. 
The principal Bantu tribes in this region are the 
Wa-tutwa, Wa-kara, and Wa-rori on the south¬ 
eastern shores of the Victoria Nyanza, and the Ba- 
samia and Ba-nyara to the north of Kavirondo; the 
Wa-kikuyu, Wa-mbe, and Wa-Saico to the south and 
west of Mount Kenia; the A-kamba, inhabiting a 
large district known as Ukambani, between the rivers 
Amboni and Tzavo; the Wa-pokomo on the Tana, 
which flows from the base of Kenia to the Indian 
1 “ Through Masai Land,” pp. 412—-414. 
