The Nandi, their language and folk-lore . Kipeles, Chief Medicine Man of the Nandi, surrounded by hisadvisers (Henderson). Frontispiece THE NANDI TPIEIR LANGUAGE AND FOLK-LORE BY A. C. HOLLTS WITH INTRODUCTION BYSIR CHARLES ELIOT OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON TRESS1909 HENRY FROWDE, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO, AND MELBOURNE PREFACE On my return to East Africa in January, 1905,1 deter-mined to pursue my studies in the languages, folk-lore,and customs of those tribes inhabiting our Protectoratethat form an offshoot of the Nilotic stock, and to writea
The Nandi, their language and folk-lore . Kipeles, Chief Medicine Man of the Nandi, surrounded by hisadvisers (Henderson). Frontispiece THE NANDI TPIEIR LANGUAGE AND FOLK-LORE BY A. C. HOLLTS WITH INTRODUCTION BYSIR CHARLES ELIOT OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON TRESS1909 HENRY FROWDE, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO, AND MELBOURNE PREFACE On my return to East Africa in January, 1905,1 deter-mined to pursue my studies in the languages, folk-lore,and customs of those tribes inhabiting our Protectoratethat form an offshoot of the Nilotic stock, and to writean account of the Nandi-Lumbwa group on somewhatsimilar lines to those followed in my book on the Masai.^ But little is known of the Nandi and allied tribes, not-withstanding the fact that we have administered some oftheir territories for a decade or more, and the followingbooks and papers are, so far as I am aware, all that havebeen published on the language and customs of thesepeople. 1. Notes OH the Ethnology of tribes met tcith duringnanditheirlangua00holl
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