. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. MASAI, TURKANA, STJK, XANDI, ETC. s;5i a grev god. who was wliolly indifferent to tlie welfare of liumaidtv ; and a led god, who was thovoughly bad. Thi' lilaek god was \erv human in his attributes—and, in
. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. MASAI, TURKANA, STJK, XANDI, ETC. s;5i a grev god. who was wliolly indifferent to tlie welfare of liumaidtv ; and a led god, who was thovoughly bad. Thi' lilaek god was \erv human in his attributes—and, in fact, was nothing lint a glorified ninn. and the ancestor of the .M;isai. They generally imagine that the black god originally lived on the snowy summit of Mount Kenya, wheie the other gods, pitying his loneliness, sent him a small bov as a companion. When thi' boy grew up, he and the lijack god took to themselves wi\-es from amongst the surrounding ^'egro races, and so procreated the first Masai men. Afterwards, the grey and the red gods l.)ecame angry at the increase of peojile on the eaith, and j)unisli<^d the world witli a terrible (h'oiight and scorching heat. The child-coui- panion of the black god, who had grown up into a man and was already the fither of several ;Masai children, started off for the sky to re- monstrate with the deities. A few days afterwards he returned, bringing copious rain with him, and lemained henceforth on earth till his own death at a rijje age. This child is sup- jiijsed to have been the principal ancestor of the Masai people, while his god-companion, tin' black deitv, was the founder of the royal house of the Sigirari tribe—repiesented at the present d:i\' liy two great chiefs, and Sendeyo, half-brothei'^. <_ine of whom li\'es on British teri-itorv near Naii'obi, nnd the other within (icrni:iM f]a^t Afric:i. After the child had lirought rain io the e;iith, tlie grey and the red gods quarrelled with each ether, and were killed.
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