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ing them away with his foot. The hyenas that haunt 
the vicinity of their burial-places root up and devour 
the dead soon after their relatives have laid them in the 
soil, without in any way being checked or molested. 
The Masai rarely kill or eat any of the game around 
them—zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, and antelopes, so 
that their country from long preserving has become a 
hunter’s paradise. Unfortunately, the Masai are incensed 
at any guns being fired in their vicinity, lest the report 
should stampede their cattle; consequently a sports¬ 
man would often find himself cruelly hampered. 
The ivory in which these people trade is secured 
for them by the helot tribes of hunters—En-dorobo, 
El-mau, and others, who actively pursue the elephants 
with spears and poisoned lances. The Wa-kwavi, who 
are agricultural Masai, cultivate, of course, most of the 
East African vegetables—sugar-cane, maize, bananas, 
millet, tobacco, sweet potatoes, and the collocasia root. 
The names of all these things are derived from Bantu 
languages, and are not related to terms employed by 
the other members of the Masai family in the Nile 
basin. Tobacco is not smoked by the Masai, but 
mixed with natron {magad) and chewed. It is also 
powdered and taken as snuff most extensively. Tobacco 
is always called by a corruption of the coast name, 
which again is only a variant of “ tobacco.” It is 
wonderful, considering how recent is the introduction, 
that tobacco has so quickly spread among these wild 
people that they already forget its foreign origin. 
The Masai are very fond of honey, which they not 
only purchase from their agricultural, bee-keeping 
neighbours, but also obtain from the stores of wild 
bees in wart-hog or ant-bear burrows. To these they 
are often guided by the honey-bird {Indicator), a crea- 
