Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-07
A Look at the Villages - How the
British Are Saving the East Afri-
can Forests - Troubles With the
Monkeys and the Dog-Faced Ba-
boons.

, about his neck and coils OF brass wire
about each wrist and over the blceps
Of each arm. His only clothing con-
sisted OF a strip of dirty white cotton
which was fastened over one soulder
and fell to his thighs He had pro-
nounceG negro features and where the
rcd clay had worn off his skin was as
black as my boots.
WHERE THE CATTLE SLEEP
WITH THE PEOPLE
These WakilSuyu live in small VIII
lagos. Their towns look like collec-
tons of haycocls until you come close
to them and when you get inside you
find that they contain as many animals
as men. The houses are matched huts
built about six feet apart in circles
around an inclosure in which the cattle.
sheep and goats are kept at night
The sheep and goats often get inside
the huts, and as for the chickens, they
so everywhere. Each circle OF huts
usually belongs 10 one family, a chief
and his relatives thus living together
The huts have wooden walls about four
feet high with conlcal roofs The wood
is chopped out of the trees with tho
native axes, the boards being about
rs inches or two feet in width They
nre made by the natives, man and
his wives requiring about 10 days to
build hut. The wood used is soft
and the kind is regulated by the gov
ernment which charges tho natives SC
cents for enough wood to build one
hut.
In addition 10 tho huts, ca oh family
has two OF three granaries to keep Its
winter supply of Indian corn. These
are made with wicker walls and wick
or floors, and are raised foot or is
n no n no
ally about as big around as hogs
head and six feet in height. They
have matched roofs.
WHAT THEY EAT.
The Wakikuyu are practically vege-
tarians. They live on corn, beans.
sweet potatoes and q kind of miIlet
They have few cattle and some sheep
but they consider them too valuable to
be Killed and they only eat them when
the cattle are sick or become injured
In some way and have to be Killed
They have no chickens, and eat neither
fowls nor eggs. The reason for this
is that chickens crow. and In the past
the locality of a village could be told
by the cocks and thereby brought
down its enemies and the slave trad
ers upon It.
These people have many dishes Ike
ours lHty eat TOaSllHB ears on tine
cob, and they boil beans and corn to-
gether. making q kind of succotash.
They have also a Cruel made of millet
and milk. and II one Of the faml
becomes sick they sometimes give him
mutton broth. In their cooking thew
use clay jars, which they rest upon
stones and build fires under them.
They use gourds for carrying milk and
water, and make bags OF woven bark
ranging in size from a pint to four
bushels. Such bags are used for all
sorts of purposes. and the larger ones
serve for the transportation Of their
grain to the markets.
WIVES WORTH MONEY.
The Wakikuyu looks upon the fe-
males of his family as so much avail
able capital. If a man has Is or 90
wives, he Is supposed to be wealthy
beyond the dreams of avarice. | an,
told that many of the chiefs have n
dozen or more, and that since the Brit
ish have begun to exploit the forests
the more industrious OF the native men
have been rapidly increasing their
families. A good girl large and
healthy, viii bring as much as 50 sheep
ana a man may pay down 10 sheen and
agree to bring in the balance from
month to month as himself and his
wives earn them. He goes into tho
woods and cuts down trees, being naid
so much per stick. II d man works