Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07

ready to fight at the least provocation
They are more civilized than the Wakl-
kuyu and do considerable work In iron
and leather They have cattle: sheep
and goats and few do some farming.
Like the Nasal. they bleed their cattle,
and drink the blood hot. sometimes mix
ing it with their porridge After bleed
ing they close the wounds. so that the
cattle grow we'll again. They are good
hunters, and have large dogs, with which
they run the game down so that it can
be killed with spears. They also trap
game by digging wedge-shaped pits, and
covering them over with grass Ihey
have donkeys which they use TO carry
the iron ore from the mines to their fur
naces, where they turn it into pig
metal.
These people have about the same GUS
toms of marriage as the Nasal. The
young girls live with the warriors until
they reach manageable age. and mar
rage is always a matter of bargain and
sale. The price of a good-look1ng girl
is three goats, a cow and good fat hen,
and the belle of the tribe may bring
twice as much. Among the Nandi, the
woman who bears the most children Is
considered the most valuable. She who
has twins is a mascot, and is given
COW. the milk of which goes exclusively to
her. The younger women OF TINS tribe
wear small aprons of leather, ornamented
with beads, and the young men go prac-
tically naked. The married men dress
much like those I saw on the track.
I understand that the Nandi live about
the same as the other natives about
here. They have circular huts of boards
rooted with thatotl. Each hut has fire
place in the center. and on each side OF
this little bed consisting of a platform
of mud built along the wall of the hut
The people sleep on the mud, and use
round blocks of wood for pillows. The
children sleep with their parents until
they are six years Of age, when they
are showed off into a smaller hut outside,
butt especially for them. They be
lieve in witches and medicine men, and
they have sky god to whom they pray
every morning and to whom they sac
rifice when times are hard.
People Who Dress in Beads.
Nearly all these Africans believe in
witch doctors. The Wakamba, whose
country I passed through on my way to
Nairobi. not infrequently kill the women
of their tribe when they are charged with
witchcraft. and there is record of some
thing like forty having been murdered this
way within the past two or three years.
1 saw these Wakamba on the Athi plains
and in and about Nairobi. They are tall
and fine looking. having woody hair.
rather thick lips and almost straight
noses. They wear but little clothing.
Some of the women / saw were clad in
nothing but beads. They had bead leg
gins reaching from their ankles almost to
their knees and bead Wristbands embrace
ing their bodies from the breast to the
thighs, with short bead aprons hanging
down at the front, They wore wristlets
consisting of about twenty coils of brass
wire as thick as a lead pencil. and they
had other coils of wire above and below
the bceps encircling their upper arms.
They had also necklaces of wire, and wire
earrings, but all this failed to hide the
greater part of their persons. The girls
were fat, plump and well fed. and their