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Masai, who inhabit the country south of the Sogonoi 
range of mountains and around Mount Meru. He had 
also enrolled the Wa-macame, a strong people occupy¬ 
ing the south-west slopes of Kilima-njaro, and the 
TV a-maramu, ruled by Chief Miriale, his next-door 
neighbours on the east side. Besides these, most of the 
small tribes had been enlisted as mercenaries under 
pain of having some of the more powerful allies set at 
them in the event of any failure to obey his commands. 
Thus, by his intrigues, superior intelligence, and 
swaggering bounce, Mandara had managed to set the 
country by the ears, and was, to a considerable extent, the 
practical ruler of the whole mountain-side—a singular 
instance in savage life of the triumph of intellect over 
brute force. His great enemy and rival is Sina, chief 
of the Wa-kiboso, a tribe on the western border of 
his dominion, and in numbers probably the most 
powerful of all. Sina holds an almost impregnable 
position, and is a sharp thorn in Mandara’s side, who 
lives in constant dread of his attacks. Only a few 
months before our visit, he was one morning surprised 
by a Kiboso raiding-party and suffered severe losses, 
for his house was burnt, all his treasures looted, and 
he only managed to save his own skin by flying to the 
bush. But when his men had collected, they waylaid 
the victorious Wa-kiboso on their return home, and 
retaliated by killing a considerable number. Since 
this loss of property Mandara has slept higher up the 
mountain, and built the iron hut for his greater pro¬ 
tection, in addition to employing a strong bodyguard 
