. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . nks, as a drum-major before a band, and is usually distinguished by amost magnificent physique, and a perfect spear andshield. A remarkable change comes over the Masai as soonas he leaves the military, and marries and settles downto domestic life. In Masai-land I never saw a married man smile!And this in a land where, as before noted, the singlemen are all jovial blades. Whether it results from theresponsiblities of the married state, or whether eternalregret pursues them at leaving the wild, dissolute life ofthe warrior kraal, who shall say?—but certain
. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa . nks, as a drum-major before a band, and is usually distinguished by amost magnificent physique, and a perfect spear andshield. A remarkable change comes over the Masai as soonas he leaves the military, and marries and settles downto domestic life. In Masai-land I never saw a married man smile!And this in a land where, as before noted, the singlemen are all jovial blades. Whether it results from theresponsiblities of the married state, or whether eternalregret pursues them at leaving the wild, dissolute life ofthe warrior kraal, who shall say?—but certainly thesharp contrast between the deep gravity of the marriedmen, and the merry devilment of the El-Moran, is verystriking indeed. Such then is a cursory sketch of the life, appearance,and characteristics of the remarkable men who swarmedinto our boma at Lytokitok. A further glimpse oftheir social life was afforded us when they got ready toswarm out again and go home. Two-thirds of ouraudience were women and young girls. The varriors,. INTO MASAI-LAND. Ill when they thought it time for clearing out, simplypicked up sticks and proceeded to drive the femalesbefore them toward the opening, as though they werea flock of sheep. Notwithstanding the friendly relations we had main-tained with the El-Moran of Lytokitok, our party wereall the time in a panicky frame of mind. Their ridicu-lous fears are not to be described in print. Even insideour own thorn castle, porters might be seen edgingaway from warriors with every symptom of fear. Andonce when an axe and a package of beads were stolen,and the whole crowd of Masai rushed from the boma,the excitement was prodigious. Bunduki! bunduki!(guns! guns!) was the panicky shriek, and for a minutewe really expected some trembling lunatic to fire hisgun, and bring about a fight, in which that same bravesoul would have been speared in the back while runningaway. Not a man would have dared to raise a hand indefense of our goods, and so when in d
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