The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-12-23

Ia1rS. Inc whites OF henYa ana OF
the much more important Union of
South Africa asserted that if Great
Britain abandoned the principle that
her people have the obligation to main
tain her institutions among the less
advanced peoples of her colonies, it
would mean the death of the British
empire and of the civilization which
she has developed in Asia and Africa.
People Of Many Races.
The land which is now Kenya colony
has had its mixture of races for a long
time. Phoenicians, Arabs, Indians,
even Chinese, skirted lis coasts in
very early times and traded with it's
natives. Later the ARABS came in
numbers; and now there is a popula-
tion of about 10000 of them in addi-
ton to large number of people of
mixed Arab and black blood. The In
dams began to go to this region be-
fore British influence began, and now
number some $4,000.
OF the blacks there are numerous
tribes. The Suks. belong to the
Nilotic race group. The Swahilis are
the hybrid people formed by the
union of Arabs with the Somalis and
Gallas. There is also the Bantu-speak-
ing population, many of whom dwell
in the regions around Mount Kenya,
which was for time believed to lie
in the tabled regions of the Noun
tains of the Moon" as well as more
of the Nilotic group, consisting of the
Nasal, the Nandi and others. ,
Though Kenya calls itself the new
est Of the British colonies, it is one of
the oldest lands of the earth Colonel
Roosevelt, in speaking of his African
hunting trip, said that the Nasal often
reminded him of the pictures of the
soldiers of Thothmes and Rameses
made by the ancient Egyptian
sculptors, in that their faces were
resolute and had clear-cut features.
The same noted traveller said of this
tribe that though the women were
scrupuiously clothed, "the husbands
brothers very SYSTEMATICALLY wear no
clothing for purposes of decency."
Reports concerning this particular
people have constantly made their APP
pearance in the civilized world be-
cause they persistently pillaged neigh
boring tribes, having decided that they
no longer cared to till their own fields.
but would get their sustenance by
taking the cattle and supplies of
weaker tribes, and in this way have
been responsible fer the depopulation
Of large districts of British East At
RIGA. Today, however, they are doing
excellent work in cultivating the soil.
The greater portion of the Nasal
now live in the districts around Mai
robi. They have perhaps the most
definite religious beliefs of any of the
East African tribes, praying to two
gods, one black and benevolent and the
other red and crual, but they believe
that when they die, they go out like
puff.
Women Who Wear Tails.
Though unclothed the Kavirondos
are much bedecked, every circumfer
ence the human form affords, from
chest and stomach to ankle and wrist,
is wire-wrapped. The women add one
other decoration, tail-like tuft sus-
pended from the waistline in the rear.
Sparse population of region where
the altitude offsets the equatorial heat
and the fertility invites farming is due
largely to these warrior Nasal whose
former livelihood was gained prin-
cipally by raids on their neighbors.
Many of them have settled down TO
filling the soil.
Another native tribe, the Andorabos,
formerly lived largely upon flesh Of
the Colobus monkey. The skin has a
market. value because of its silky black
and white hair and the tail with an
immense bushy plume at the end.
They, too, turned to the soil as the
British imposed restrictions on mon
key killing to save the animals from
extinction.
The Calais. though they are now Of
little Importance either politically or
economically, take great pride in their
past. They say that they once had a
sacred book. like the Bible or the
Koran, but COW ate it, and not being
certain about the particular animal. in
their search they are still opening the
stomach Of every cow that dies.