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interior, that will soon be—is already—an impossi¬ 
bility. Where their victims were too weak to resist 
they have simply given up cattle-keeping for fear of 
attracting the ruthless plundering of the Masai, and 
now subsist meekly on vegetables and fowls; where 
they were already strong, they have become stronger, 
either by settled government or by occupying un¬ 
assailable positions. Soon there will be no cattle left 
to raid, and the Masai will range the wide deserted 
plains in all their splendid insolent bravery and die of 
inanition. The inhabitants of the walled cities or the 
lofty hills will dwell secure from attack, and the 
wretched remnants of vanquished tribes still lingering 
in unprotected haunts will not be worth robbing. Then 
the proud Masai must turn to and wring from the soil that 
sustenance which only comes as the reward of honest 
labour. A dear old warrior of Kisongo, with the 
manners of a well-bred Arab, and the physique of an 
aged Hercules (supposing that hero to have recovered 
his attack of blood-poisoning and to have attained the 
condition of a magnificent ruin), said to me a little 
more than a year ago, “ Ah, when you next return to 
Taveita in twelve months’ time, you will find us all 
Embarawuio (Wa-kwavi), like these people of Kikoro, 6 
whom we used to rob and kill when I was a youth. 
And now, see 1 All our cattle are dying, though we 
have sent them to the pastures of Jipe, and I have to 
come here to buy food from these Es-singa (slaves), 
who are fat and strong, and lack not good things to 
eat.” The old gentleman had,in fact, come with a troop 
of wives and many asses to buy grain and honey and 
dried bananas. In time these more civilized Wa-kwavi 
will prevail in numbers and power over the fierce pas- 
6 Kikoro is the Kwavi settlement in Taveita. 
