The Nandi, their language and folk-lore . s sense it may be said thatsome Semitic ideas have penetrated ainong the Nandi andMasai. But there is no proof that the foundation of eitherthe language or the religious beliefs is Semitic. Before concluding I should like to draw attention to thevaluable results which Mr. Mollis has obtained by trainingAfrican natives to take down the language of the wilder andmore distant tribes. Thus the Turkana vocabulary andstories were collected V)y a native of Taveta, who had learntto write in the Mission there, and then spent some monthsamong the Turkana. It wou
The Nandi, their language and folk-lore . s sense it may be said thatsome Semitic ideas have penetrated ainong the Nandi andMasai. But there is no proof that the foundation of eitherthe language or the religious beliefs is Semitic. Before concluding I should like to draw attention to thevaluable results which Mr. Mollis has obtained by trainingAfrican natives to take down the language of the wilder andmore distant tribes. Thus the Turkana vocabulary andstories were collected V)y a native of Taveta, who had learntto write in the Mission there, and then spent some monthsamong the Turkana. It would appear that the intelligence ofan educated native of East Africa is quite equal to such atask. I do not know if this method has been employed inother parts of Africa, but it has clearly great advantages,besides being a considerable economy of time. A nativeinspires less mistrust in the wilder tribes than a European; heunderstands their ideas more readily, and his notes are notlikely to be influenced by preconceived theories. C.
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