The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-01

Almost all of the hard labor of the tribe is done by the older women. They col lect the fire wood. They build the mud house9 and gather the COW manure with which their walls are smeared, When the villages are moved from place to place these withered danes take the parts of the donkeys and bullocks in carrying the burdens They erect the new huts and they are. as rule, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water.
 A Nation of Stock Raisers.
 These Nasal do no farming. They are nation of stock raisers and own herds of cattle, sheep and goats, which they drive about from pasture to pasture. The cattle are the bumped variety like the sacred cows of India, many of them be- ing fat, sleek and fine looking. Some of the animals are branded, and not few have rude bells of iron in order that they may be traced if they stray. The most of the cattle are watched by half-naked boys, who drive them about with sticks from place to place. Every morning and evening the cows are brought into the villages to be milked, and nearly every town of mud huts has it's COW house. The women do the milking. This is con trary to the custom in some parts of Africa, where it is thought the cows will go dry if any female touches them. The milk is caught in gourds which are after wards cleaned with handfuls of burnt grass. The calves are brought alongside their mothers at milking time and the cows will not let down their milk without they are present. If a calf dies it is skinned and stuffed with straw and then placed under the cows nose for milking. The people always drink their milk fresh, but this method of cleaning the gourds gives it smoky flavor.
 They Drink Blood.
 The Nasal are blood drinkers. Their country has practically no sauft, and I am told that they keep in health by hood drinking They consume all the blood of the animals they kill and sometimes bleed their cattle in the neck and then tie up the wounds so that they grow well agaln. sometimes strap is tied around an anil mals throat and an arrow is shot into the jugular vein. As the blood gushes forth 1t is caught in gourds and drunk warm
 The people eat but few vegetables and do no farming whatever. Their cooking IS usually done in pots of burnt clay, va rying from eight to 20 inches in height The larger pots are not placed over the lire but at the side of 1t, and are turned around, now and then, in order that they may be equally heated.
 Talk With Sidney L. Hnde.
 The most of my information about these Nasal comes from Capt. Sidney Langford Hinde, the famous explorer and lion hunter. He is now subcommissioner of this colony and l met him at Mombasa on my way here. Captain Hinde was born in Canada not far from Niagara Falls. He received an excellent medical education in Germany and England, but began his life as a captain in the Belgian colonial service During his stay there he explored the upper Lualaba and other rivers. and wrote a book entitled "rhe Fall of the Congo Arabs" About ten years or so ago he came over into British East Afri- ca and took part in the subjugation of this country for the English. He lived With the Nasal and other natives and made a study of them. When l met him he was acting as governor of British East Africa in the absence of the chief, and his home was one of the official resi- dences, beautiful cottage outside Mom- basa on the rocks overlooking the Indian ocean. The house Is decorated with the trophies secured by MT. Hinde and his wife during their stay in Africa. Upon the floors are the skins of lions and leo- pards, on the walls are the heads of gi- raffes, antelope, gnu and of other big game and there are native spears and weapons of every kind standing about A large number of the skins are from ani- mals shot by Mrs Hinde. She has her self killed several lions, no end of ante lopes and zebras, and one huge rhinoce- ros.
 In my talk with MT. Hinde he told mo much about the Nasal, saying that they were now quiet and are becoming semi civilized. They are paying the annual hut taxes of about three rupees each, to the government. Three rupees means s1 American. It seems but little until one remembers that it takes a native about a month to earn that much, when it be- comes a great deal.
 About Mount kenla.
 A great part of Mir. Hinde's work has been near Mount kenia, in a country which he says Is phenomenally rich He tells me that the Uganda railway goes through some of the poorest land in British East Africa and that the Kenia territory has great possibilities. He predicts that the railroad which is now to be built from Nairobi to Fort Hall, under the shadow of Mount Kenia, will pay from the start and that Kenia will eventually be covered with rich farms. Said he:
 When Mrs. Hinde and I first came into the province the country was in the same condition it had been for ages. We found that it contained about million people, who lived in little villages, each containing about 10 huts or so. There were no great chiefs. Each village was independent and almost constantly at war with the neighboring villages. The citi esH 4 one settlement knew nothing d st sse of the other settlements abol-. 4 f..an dared not venture more than 10 miles from his home, and he had little knowledge of the country outside that radius. There were no roads whatever excepting trails which wound this way and that over the land. The only meet-s ing places were at the markets. which were held at certain fixed points on certain days of the week or mon.n. It is, rule through out Africa that warfare and fighting must be sus- pended on market days, and no one dares bring arms to a market or fight there. If he should engage in fight ing and be killed his relatives cannot claim blood money.
 New Roads Made by the British.
 'When we took possession of the Kenia province" Captain Hinde went on, I've had to fight our way in. As soon as we had subdued the people we made them work at making roads as penalty for their insurrection. We connected all the villages by roadways and gave each town so much to take care of. As a result we now have in that province alone 400 miles of good wagon roads, each ten feet in width. We have also made 1t the law that every road shall be considered as having all the rights of market place. This means that no native can assault another while walking upon them and