Evening star., 1922-12-17
A Thrilling Chase After 10LionS
Black Mane Rare and Highly Pzed Dfes Human Foes Just Deadly
rave Boy-Rea Cave Man Has Abode Which Is Reached Only
Long Limb Tee-Steam Cooks His FoodPre
pares to Obtain Wife in Trade for Bees.


wet or cold from hunting he would
build fire here and warm and dry
| himself.
In another. chamber. deep In the bow
| els Of Syswa, was "a steam Jet. The hot
! steam came hissing out through
crevice in the rock. He cooked his
! meat and bird eggs here!
| So It was only necessary to build
fire occasionally. and then usually after
dark.
| The steam from the Jet forced its way
! out into a sort Of dome. hitting the
| top with great force The dome acted as
sort of condenser and water came
trickling down the sides.
From the continuous action of the
steam, the volcanic rock had become
softer than that exposed TO the sun.
He had cut a groove down the center
and many other grooves from high up
on the sides. descending gradually at
right angles until they joined the per-
pendicuar one, SO that, nearly all of the
i water that came down followed these
| tributary grooves into the perpendicu-
lar one. Under this he set lar. ka-
buyon, something like a large gourd. He
had traded honey for the kabuyon. In
this way the steam jet gave him con-
stant supply OF water.
Our Derobo was not only hunter,
but bee man as well. He made his
own hives from large hollow limb or q
hollow tree. They were cut square off
st the top and bottom with knife. He
had never heard of a saw. He put cross
sticks in these for the bees to tie the
! comb to and used thin slab of slate
| rock for top and bottom.
These hives he deposited on shelves
| that protruded from steep stone walls.
He reached many of these places by
| letting himself down from the top by
the aid of species of vine that acted
as a rope.
| He said he could remove the slab or
slate rock and break off a part of the
honey without robbing them entirely.
but that he seldom did this, as he was
! able to find as much wild honey as he
wanted.
/ There were one or two little birds that
! lived near him, and whenever he heard
one Of them twitter he would follow i.
along from tree to tree and it would
always take him to 4 swarm of bees,
, either in a tree or the creNice Of 4
rock.
| He would take the honey and leave
the bees bread and young bees for the
/ bird. Sometimes the bird would guide
| him to one OF his own hives and would
twitter and jump around Indignantly
! when he did not molest 1t.
4 DEROBO HUNTER who lived near
! "A by had three beautiful daughters.
he said. The father had offered
I him one of the girls for fifteen hives
occupied with bees, and he already had
ten or twelve
/ There were lots of wild swarms deep
in the crevices Of rock where no one
could get 10 them. When n young
sv = came out they would often oc-
gu lc of his hives.
II vas quite confident that he would
+ soon have one OF the girls, and il good
/ luck was with him he would have all
three Of them.
\ long time ago his brother had lived
in the cave with him. but had had the
most unheard-of good fortune. He had
! shot a bush buck with poisoned ar
row over in n crater in Syswa, and in
/ following the spoor of the wounded
buck it had led him into a growth of
/ Juniper SO thick he could not see the
| length of his bow. The spoor finally
/ led him down for many hundred feet
, into the deep part of the crater.
| The deeper down he went the thicker
became the juniper, until he could
make his way only by crawling on his
, hands and knees.
He disturbed big herd of buffalo
that ran in all directions and two big
bulls got his wind and charged after
him. He escaped by climbing tree.
AS the two bulls paved and snorted
under the tree, he shot his quiver of
, poisoned arrows into them.
| They kept him up the tree until near
/ IL dark and the next morning he found
| them both dead. He remained until
the skins We're dry and carried them
one at a time to the American mission
! At kijabe and sent word to the Massi.
! who came and traded him four calves
! Tor them
! He thought the warriors made them
into war shields. His brother remained
with the calves on the NOW above the
mission until they grew to be cows and
then traded the four cows for two
wives.
! >He had settled on the slopes of the
NOW with a garden for each wife, and
now he was very happy, with no work
/ to do.
| Our Derobo said that as soon as he
could get bee hives enough to trade
for two or three wives he would make
gardens on the "mow" and live near his
| brother.
! I wanted to sit and listen to other
| tales from this wild man that lived SO
close to nature. but fad not slept the
night before and 1 could stay awake
no longer.
| The next morning at daybreak the
| Derobo came to bid us farewell and we
never saw him again.
| Copyright. 1927
! Continued in next Sundays Starr