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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Native Races of East Africa, by W.
-D. Hambly
-
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-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
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-Title: The Native Races of East Africa
-
-Author: W. D. Hambly
-
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-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NATIVE RACES OF EAST
-AFRICA ***
-
-
-
-
-
- _Native Races of the British Empire_
-
-
- THE NATIVE RACES
- OF EAST AFRICA
-
-
- BY
-
- W. D. HAMBLY, F.R.A.I., B.Sc.
- (RESEARCH DEGREE, OXON.)
-
- OXFORD DIPLOMA IN ANTHROPOLOGY
- ASSISTANT ANATOMIST IN THE WELLCOME RESEARCH EXPEDITION
- TO THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN, 1913-14
-
-
- HUMPHREY MILFORD
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
- TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY
- 1920
-
-
- [Illustration: MASAI WARRIOR WITH LION-SKIN HEAD-DRESS.]
-
-
- PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
- MORRISON & GIBB LTD., EDINBURGH
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change the
-nature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of the
-names of natural features to a subject of living interest.
-
-In the endeavour to effect this change there has been a serious
-omission in our failure to appeal to natural interests of children by
-making the human element a central feature of geographical work.
-
-A study of the picturesque lives of native races of the British
-Empire is an absolute essential if the teacher wishes to impart the
-appropriate colour and setting to a subsequent course of economic,
-regional, and political geography.
-
-The sharp contrast between European beliefs and customs and those of
-primitive people is in itself an incentive to study and interest.
-In addition to this, a sympathetic understanding of the many native
-races who are controlled by English statesmanship is necessary for the
-material and moral progress of dominions in the British Empire.
-
- W. D. HAMBLY.
-
-
-
-
- CONTENTS
-
- PAGE
-
- CHAPTER I
- INTRODUCTION 9
-
- CHAPTER II
- THE FIGHTING MASAI 17
-
- CHAPTER III
- MASAI STORIES AND BELIEFS 28
-
- CHAPTER IV
- THE AKIKUYU PEOPLE 33
-
- CHAPTER V
- SOCIAL LIFE OF THE AKIKUYU 38
-
- CHAPTER VI
- THE BAGANDA TRIBE OF UGANDA 41
-
- CHAPTER VII
- SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BAGANDA 46
-
- CHAPTER VIII
- STORIES TOLD BY THE BAGANDA 49
-
- [Illustration: EAST AFRICA]
-
-
-
-
-THE NATIVE RACES OF EAST AFRICA
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER I
-
-INTRODUCTION
-
-
-A few years ago two dwarfs or Pygmies from the trackless forests of
-Uganda were bold enough to allow themselves to be brought to London,
-where they were exhibited and photographed. Unfortunately these little
-people had no one who could interpret their language, or what a
-wonderful story they might have told concerning life in an equatorial
-forest, where the foliage is in places so dense as to shut out the
-powerful glare of a tropical sun.
-
-Many years ago these dwarfs were known to the highly civilised
-inhabitants of Ancient Egypt, and as early as 3000 B.C. the leaders of
-expeditions into the Sudan were charged by the Pharaohs of Egypt to
-return with gold dust, ivory, ornamental woods, and leopard skins; but
-above all these forms of wealth King Pepy II. desired a Pygmy “alive
-and well.”
-
-These tiny folk, whose height is rarely more than four feet nine
-inches, live the simple life of hunters, almost devoid of clothing,
-possessing neither basket-work nor pottery, and armed only with
-flint-tipped spears and small poisoned arrows. Of agriculture they
-have no knowledge, for their time is wholly occupied by the dangerous
-pursuit of large and small game.
-
-What a sharp contrast to these pygmies are the giant tribes of the
-Upper Nile, where the Shilluks are usually six feet four inches in
-height, and a man of only six feet would be regarded as short!
-
-Many centuries ago, but at what time in the world’s history it is
-impossible to say, a tall, dark-skinned people named Hamites entered
-Africa from the direction of Arabia, and so fierce were these invaders
-that they were able to push before them the negroes, who retreated
-south and west. These fighting Hamites are now represented by the
-Somali, Danakil, and Galla who inhabit the “Horn of Africa,” where they
-subsist chiefly by cattle rearing; that is to say, they are a pastoral
-people, who move from one well and piece of grass land to another,
-driving before them large herds of sheep, goats, camels, and perhaps a
-few horses.
-
-Of course the Hamites mixed with the true negroes to some extent,
-so forming the great Bantu race which inhabits most of our Uganda
-Protectorate. The dreaded Masai of British East Africa are probably a
-cross between the Negro and the Galla. Arab tribes have for centuries
-wandered through East Africa as traders and slave raiders, so we have
-to consider a very mixed people.
-
-What a variety of country, too, in the British territories called the
-Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Uganda, and British East Africa!
-
-[Illustration: WOMAN CRUSHING GRAIN ON A CONCAVE STONE WITH AN OVAL
-STONE ROLLER.]
-
-Everywhere along the banks of the Nile there is fertile country, but
-in the Sudan territories of Kordofan, Sennar, and other provinces,
-are seemingly boundless tracts of desert, broken here and there by
-rocky hills or “gebels,” which perhaps attain a height of three or
-four hundred feet. In such places large dog-faced baboons abound,
-hyenas shelter in the caves, and near to the wells, usually found
-among the rocks, are native encampments, where dwell Arabs, Taishi,
-and Baggara people, who fought so determinedly against the English
-in 1885. Now, however, they are quite friendly, and the traveller
-may be invited into the “zereba,” an enclosure containing a number of
-circular huts with pointed roofs, and here refreshment of coffee and
-milk is provided. Thin miserable dogs bark defiance at the stranger,
-who keeps them at bay with his whip of rhinoceros hide. Little naked
-children play about in much the same way as white youngsters amuse
-themselves, but they are more delighted than their white cousins would
-be by the gift of a wire bracelet or a string of beads. Outside the
-huts kneeling women crush the grain--“dhurra”--on slabs of stone; and
-what an enormous pile of this crushed grain a Sudanese will eat! Seldom
-does he enjoy the luxury of meat. A whitish, muddy-looking liquid
-may be offered to the visitor; this he had better avoid, for it is
-native beer, made by allowing soaked “dhurra” to stand in the sunshine
-for several days. If the village population has reached two or three
-thousand, there are sure to be a few Arab merchants who have brought
-their calico, dried dates, and other wares all the way from Khartoum
-or Wad Medani. There they sit by the goods, which are laid out on the
-ground, possibly reading a chapter from the “Koran” or Mohammedan
-Bible, while a small group of natives gather round and decide how to
-spend the money which they have only recently learned to use, instead
-of bartering, that is, changing one article for another.
-
-In many parts of the Sudan natives are employed on irrigation works or
-railways, where the workmen are paid with Egyptian coins. Even now a
-native prefers to have a lot of little coins, and would at any time
-receive several small coins rather than one silver piece.
-
-Uganda and British East Africa can show enormous tracts of park land,
-where European enterprise is engaged in cattle rearing, and native
-tribes such as the Masai rely on their flocks and herds for a living.
-In no part of the world, not even in the Amazon valley, are the forests
-more dense than those of Uganda, where the traveller finds Bantu tribes
-existing much as they have done for thousands of years.
-
-When reading of railways connecting Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, with
-Khartoum, or of a line from Nairobi in British East Africa to Port
-Florence on Victoria Nyanza thence to the great port of Mombasa, one
-is apt to think that these East African Protectorates must be very
-advanced in civilisation, but this is not the case.
-
-In a journey from Khartoum southward into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,
-or from Port Sudan to Khartoum, the traveller is very much impressed
-with the luxury of the train in which he travels through the wildest
-scenery, comprising dense prickly bush, dreary wastes of sand, and
-rocky hills. Native children run away screaming on the approach of
-a train. In the journey from Khartoum to the Red Sea one encounters
-the Hadendoa people, who make themselves appear very tall and wild by
-allowing their hair to grow perpendicularly in a huge bush on the top
-of the head. In Uganda and British East Africa the traveller may have
-the experience of having his train charged by a buffalo, rhinoceros, or
-elephant, who mistakes it for some powerful rival, come to settle in
-the tropical forest which he has enjoyed undisturbed for so many years.
-
-[Illustration:
-
- 1, 2. Throwing-clubs from the Nile Valley.
-
- 3. Pot from which victims for sacrifice were made to drink a magic
- draught to “kill” their souls, and thus prevent their “ghosts” from
- returning to punish their murderers.
-
- 4. Conventional hoe-blades used as money (Upper Nile).
-
- 5. Small shield of the Hamites, west of Victoria Nyanza (Uganda).
-
- 6, 7. Old and modern Masai spears.
-
- 8, 9. Fighting bracelets (Upper Nile).
-
- 10. A Dorobo elephant harpoon (East Africa Protectorate). The arrow
- shaft fits loosely into the haft, which falls away when the animal is
- struck.
-
- 11. Spear of the Hamitic tribes.
-
- 12, 13, 14. Pottery vases blackened with plumbago. One is in the form
- of a gourd (Baganda, Uganda).
-
- 15. Ivory armlet, Shilluk tribe (Upper Nile).
-
- 16, 17. Tobacco pipes (Upper Nile).]
-
-The savage peoples of East Africa are in many ways much more advanced
-in civilisation than the native tribes of Australia. The latter are
-simple hunters, possessing no clothing, no dwellings, no knowledge of
-metals, pottery making, or basket weaving. On the other hand, native
-inhabitants of East Africa have left the Stone Age far behind, and
-almost everywhere a knowledge of iron ore, smelting, and manufacture
-of spear-heads has been acquired. Ancient stone implements are found
-in all parts of Africa, but it is generally supposed that knowledge of
-iron came to the “Dark Continent” at a fairly early date in the history
-of civilisation.
-
-Everywhere the Negro is an agriculturist, whose women folk cultivate
-the yam, maize, or banana, whereas a simple hunting tribe in Australia
-will rely entirely for vegetable foods on what can be collected in the
-way of wild fruits and berries.
-
-With respect to clothing, weapons, dwellings, pottery, basketry,
-agriculture, and other forms of manufacture and enterprise, the
-inhabitants of East Africa are well advanced, while everywhere there
-is a great system of exchange or barter, which is not always found
-among more primitive savages, such as the Australian native tribes.
-Naturally, in so vast an area there are thousands of tribes, hence in
-this small book there will be space to tell only of a few of the most
-interesting inhabitants, who had their home in the “Dark Continent”
-long before the explorers Livingstone, Stanley, Mungo Park, Baker,
-Burton, Speke, or even early voyagers like Father Lado, Hanno, and the
-centurions of Nero ventured to penetrate the wilds.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER II
-
-THE FIGHTING MASAI
-
-
-In the year 1895 British East Africa, formerly governed under a Royal
-Charter held by the Imperial British East Africa Company, came directly
-under the management of the British Foreign Office. Thanks to the
-assistance of the Masai, hostile tribes, such as the Wakamba, were
-completely subdued; and on our side it may be said that protection was
-given to the Masai against their treacherous and warlike neighbours the
-Akikuyu.
-
-Perhaps the term “warlike” should no longer be applied to Masai
-tribesmen, for of late years they have been extremely peaceful.
-Misfortunes, such as loss of cattle by a disease called “rinderpest,”
-and outbreaks of small-pox, have made this very independent tribe rely
-on the British Government for advice and protection.
-
-There are certain points in which the Masai resemble Zulu tribes; for
-instance, their fighting men must not marry, and there is a royal
-family from which a chief is always selected. Some of the marriage
-customs are very similar, and among both Zulus and Masai there are like
-methods of painting warriors’ shields in order to distinguish companies
-and larger units. Against all these points of comparison there is one
-important fact, namely, difference in language, which very strongly
-suggests that the Zulus and Masai are not related.
-
-[Illustration: A MASAI VILLAGE.]
-
-Though slaves are unknown amongst the Masai, there are a servile people
-named the Dorobo who have to obey the commands of their masters; but,
-on the other hand, they receive wages, and must not be bought or
-sold. Very probably these people who serve the Masai were at one time
-captured and enslaved; now they do not possess any cattle, and as a
-rule the hardest work falls to their lot. An East African official,
-Mr. Hinde, says of these Dorobo: “They do not build kraals after the
-manner of the Masai, but inhabit clusters of badly built huts hidden
-in the bush. In war they are not allowed to accompany the Masai, or to
-carry shields and spears. Their weapons consist of a bow, poisoned
-arrows, and a heavy wooden-handled spear, into one end of which a
-massive arrow-head is placed. This arrow-head is thickly smeared with
-poison. In attacking large game, such as the elephant, hippopotamus,
-or rhinoceros, they drive the arrow-head into the animal, whereupon
-the heavy shaft drops off and is recovered. A new tip is fitted, and
-the native, following the wounded animal, shoots these poisoned arrows
-until the creature drops from exhaustion.”
-
-A Masai chief is a person of the greatest importance; and in former
-days, when the tribe was about to undertake a great raid on some
-neighbouring people, the king would throw himself into a trance, in
-which he had visions of the proper way of conducting an attack or
-defence. On other occasions his power of second sight caused him to
-foretell possible calamities, and before waking he suggested some means
-of avoiding them.
-
-Very probably the king practised a good deal of deception, for it is
-well known that he had a secret service system which informed him of
-all that was taking place in his own and adjacent tribes. A son of the
-royal house will always preserve his father’s skull, which, if kept
-near, is supposed to bring good luck, and assist in ruling the country.
-The bodies of ordinary people are just allowed to remain in the bush,
-and a funeral, burial, and mound of stones are given only to members of
-the royal household.
-
-The Masai are a very bright, intelligent, and truthful people; very
-rarely will a full-grown man commit a theft or tell a lie. Unlike many
-African tribes, these people have no musical instruments, and their
-few war songs and verses, sung while herding cattle, are very simple.
-Generally speaking, African natives are musical, and flutes, drums,
-also stringed instruments are very ingeniously made.
-
-Of the personal appearance of the Masai, Mr. Hinde has said: “The adult
-male Masai may be described as tall and spare, with sloping shoulders
-and small hands and feet. The sloping shoulders are probably due to
-a complete absence of manual labour, and to the constant carrying
-of a shield or spear in either hand, each weapon weighing eight or
-nine pounds. Compared with his height an average Masai could not be
-considered broad-chested. A habit of stooping, and leaning the head
-forward when running, gives a slovenly appearance, only slightly
-detracted from by an abnormally long stride. They are extraordinarily
-fleet of foot, and can run without tiring for incredible distances.
-Their usual pace is a long loping trot.”
-
-One very strange custom, looked upon as a means of ornamenting the
-head, is boring the ear lobe and inserting an object of large size.
-From time to time a larger object is put into the hole until the ear
-becomes enormously distended; some natives have been seen with ear
-ornaments consisting of one-pound jam tins inserted in holes made in
-the ear lobes.
-
-Some women prefer lip ornaments of great size, which must be in the way
-at meal-times. The method of introducing these studs is similar to that
-employed for fitting large ear ornaments. A small hole is filled with a
-thin plug of wood, the size of which is gradually increased. As a rule
-a lip stud projects into the wearer’s mouth, so that at least two teeth
-have to be extracted.
-
-Another favourite form of ornament consists of burning the skin with
-acid juices derived from plants. Small circular scars arranged in
-patterns are made, and in the Shilluk tribe of the Nile Valley men have
-four rows of such scars right across their foreheads. Women of the
-tribe have two or three rows. Sometimes these scars are made merely for
-ornament, or the marks may serve to show the tribe to which a person
-belongs.
-
-[Illustration: MITTU WOMAN, SHOWING LIP ORNAMENT AND TATTOOING BY SCARS
-(CICATRISATION).]
-
-Kavirondo men and their near neighbours, the Masai, are great warriors.
-In the latter tribe boys serve a long arduous military training, and
-it is a proud day when they are allowed to assume the full war-time
-outfit. The headdress helps to conceal people who are crouching among
-long grass. The armlets are merely ornamental, but the patterns on
-shields denote the military unit to which the warriors belong.
-
-[Illustration: WARRIORS OF THE KAVIRONDO TRIBE IN FEATHER HEAD-DRESSES.]
-
-Men, women, and children have clean shaven heads, and it is quite an
-exception for a man to show any sign of beard or moustache. Although
-washing the body and clothing is unpopular, the Masai have great pride
-in their teeth, of which most perfect care is taken, and whiteness
-and polish are obtained by frequent use of a small stick. Knocking out
-the upper central teeth is a strange custom, said by the people to
-have been invented at a time when there were many cases of lock-jaw,
-and the patients had to be fed through the hole made by extracting
-these teeth. In some instances small pieces of iron are worn, not as
-ornaments, but as a protection against, or cure for disease.
-
-All over the Sudan this wearing of charms is common, and amongst the
-Mohammedan people the amulet is made by wrapping a verse from the Koran
-in a roll of leather, generally worn round the neck or on the arm.
-
-The ornaments worn by Masai women are most noticeable, and the
-traveller is surprised that the wearers can move arms and legs
-sufficiently well to perform their work. Iron wire is wound round the
-arms from wrist to elbow and from elbow to shoulder; the legs also are
-encased in iron wire from ankle to knee-joint. Metal collars, which
-look most uncomfortable, are still made and worn by women and boys,
-who seem willing to tolerate any amount of discomfort rather than go
-without these ornaments.
-
-Amongst the Masai there is a belief that ill luck will follow if a
-man is called by his own name, and to avoid this he must always be
-addressed by his father’s name. When asked for his name, a man will
-always give that of his father; his own name must be inquired from some
-third person. As among ourselves, names are handed down from father to
-son, and among the Masai the father’s name is almost invariably given
-to his favourite son. Superstitions with regard to names are carried
-still further. Suppose several people in the tribe have the same name,
-this must be changed immediately on the death of one of them, for it
-would be considered very unlucky to retain the name of some one who
-had just died.
-
-[Illustration: LUMBWA WOMAN AND GIRL, SHOWING DRESS AND ORNAMENTS OF
-WIRE, ETC.]
-
-Boys of the Masai tribe have a very hard, unhappy life, for not only
-are they made to do all the hard work of carrying, milking and driving
-cattle, but in addition every one treats them harshly, and a boy
-may not even speak to one of the warriors. Presently the conditions
-improve, and elder boys go out shooting birds with bows and arrows,
-in order to get feathers for making mantles worn by warriors. At
-last the youth reaches an age at which he is allowed to live in the
-warriors’ camp, where there is strict training, and no excess in eating
-or drinking is allowed; smoking is quite forbidden. As the military
-training advances, the boy becomes the proud possessor of a painted
-shield, a spear, a sword, and a knobkerry or club. These weapons are
-kept in perfect condition, the spear-heads being brightly polished with
-a hard stone. Warriors are the only people allowed to grow their hair,
-and each fighting man possesses a “pig-tail,” of which he is very proud.
-
-Before making an attack, Masai warriors chew bark from the mimosa tree.
-This acts in such a way as to make them nearly mad with ferocity,
-and when all are very wild and excited the enemy is engaged. Enemies
-face one another in long lines, and instead of a general attack being
-launched single pairs are engaged in combats which are a fight to the
-death. In case of success the victors will seize the best cattle,
-which are driven off to the pastures of the conquerors. It is said
-that the Masai never attack by night or by stealth; there is always
-a preliminary warning and invitation to “come out and fight to the
-death.”
-
-Although young boys have such a hard time in order to make them fit to
-be trained as fighters, girls of the tribe are very kindly treated.
-Young maidens spend a great deal of time in singing, dancing, and
-ornamenting themselves; as a rule, they do not even cook their own
-food. Old women have all the hard menial work to perform, and very hard
-is their lot in building huts, carrying loads when the tribe moves,
-collecting firewood, and keeping night watches. Speaking of old women
-in the Masai tribe, Mr. Hinde says: “As long as she can crawl about she
-continues her labours, and death is the only release she can hope for.”
-As a rule, a girl becomes the wife of a man who can afford to pay goats
-and cattle for her; but the Masai parents consider their daughter’s
-wishes, and she is not obliged to become the wife of a man she does not
-like.
-
-The life of Masai people depends almost entirely on herds of goats and
-cattle, which are driven from pasture to pasture. Reptiles, birds,
-insects, and fish are never eaten, grain only at times when meat is
-scarce, while a favourite food is blood, drawn from the neck of a cow
-by making a small puncture with an arrow, in such a way as to avoid
-injuring the animal severely. Herds of cattle, though very docile and
-easily managed by small children, are extremely fierce, and well able
-to protect themselves against attacks made by hyenas or a leopard.
-
-Though so bold in warfare the Masai are not a race of hunters, and big
-game such as lions, leopards, or the rhinoceros are attacked only when
-the skin is required, or the animal has become a menace to the herds
-of cattle.
-
-Among the industries, smelting of iron in clay furnaces is very
-important, as it provides spear-heads and ornaments. These are not
-moulded by allowing molten metal to run into vessels, but the ore,
-heated in a charcoal fire, is beaten into shape while resting on a
-block of hard wood or stone.
-
-Clay taken from river beds serves as material for making earthenware
-vessels, which are baked hard in a fire after being moulded by hand
-into the shape required. Other vessels are made from gourds, while as a
-pastime the carving of wooden pipes and ornamenting the bowls is very
-common.
-
-Hut building with such materials as hides, mud, and sticks, likewise
-the construction of a stone and bush enclosure round the village,
-take a great deal of time; so also does a complete removal to fresh
-pastures. Hence in one way or another the time of these people is fully
-occupied, and it is a great mistake to suppose that all black people
-are lazy and indolent.
-
-There must, of course, be time for leisure, which is sometimes spent in
-telling the stories given in the next chapter.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER III
-
-MASAI STORIES AND BELIEFS
-
-
-At all periods of the world’s history human beings have been fond of
-stories concerning animals, and the Masai are no exception to the
-general rule. Here is a story of the hare and the elephants, one of a
-number collected by Mr. Hollis, who resided among the Masai for several
-years:
-
-“A hare, that lived near a river, one day saw some elephants going to
-the kraals of their father-in-law. He said to the biggest one, who was
-carrying a bag of honey: ‘Father, ferry me across, for I am a poor
-person.’ The elephant told him to get on his back, and when he had
-climbed up they started.
-
-“While they were crossing the river the hare ate the honey, and as he
-was eating it he let some of the juice fall on the elephant’s back.
-On being asked what he was dropping, he replied that he was weeping,
-and that it was the tears of a poor child that were falling. When they
-reached the opposite bank the hare asked the elephants to give him some
-stones to throw at the birds. He was given some stones, which he put
-into the honey bag. He then asked to be set down, and as soon as he was
-on the ground again he told the elephants to be off.
-
-“They continued their journey until they reached the kraal of the big
-one’s father-in-law, where they opened the honey bag. When they found
-that stones had been substituted for honey they jumped up and returned
-to search for the hare, whom they found feeding. As they approached,
-however, the hare saw them and entered a hole. The biggest elephant
-thrust his trunk into the hole and seized him by the leg, whereupon the
-hare cried out: ‘I think you have caught hold of a root!’ On hearing
-this the elephant let go and seized a root. The hare then cried out:
-‘You have broken me! You have broken me!’ which made the elephant pull
-all the harder, until at length he became tired.
-
-“While the elephant was pulling at the root the hare slipped out of
-the hole and ran away. As he ran he met some baboons, and called out
-to them to help him. They inquired why he was running so fast, and he
-replied that he was being chased by a great big person. The baboons
-told him to go and sit down, and promised not to give him up. Presently
-the elephant arrived, and asked if the hare had passed that way. The
-baboons inquired whether he would give them anything if they pointed
-out the hare’s hiding-place. The elephant said he would give them
-whatever they asked for, and when they said they wanted a cup full of
-his blood, he consented to give it them, after satisfying himself that
-the cup was small. The baboons then shot an arrow into his neck and the
-blood gushed forth. After the elephant had lost a considerable quantity
-of blood he inquired if the cup was not full. But the baboons had made
-a hole in the bottom of the cup, which was still half empty. The
-elephant suddenly felt very tired, lay down and died, upon which the
-hare came from his hiding-place to continue his journey.”
-
-[Illustration: PRIMITIVE SMELTING FURNACE, AND SECTION OF SAME, SHOWING
-BLAST-PIPES, FUEL, AND ORE.]
-
-Some stories are concerned with the work of evil spirits, and, of
-course, tales connected with warriors’ exploits are very popular.
-Before setting out on a raiding expedition a band of warriors consulted
-a wise man of the tribe, known as the “medicine man,” who said that
-the expedition would be unsuccessful if any warrior killed a monkey
-while on the march. A coward who heard this made up his mind that
-he would kill a monkey, then perhaps the attacking band would run
-instead of fighting. On the way to the scene of the combat this coward
-observed some monkeys, so, pretending to stay behind in order to fasten
-his sandal, he killed one of the animals, then quickly rejoined his
-comrades, who by this time were near the village they intended to
-attack. Outside a kraal an old man was seated, and at once a club was
-thrown at him by one of the Masai warriors. This did not appear to harm
-him in the slightest, for he only complained of the flies, in fact he
-seemed to be proof against all the clubs and spears launched against
-him. Presently he rose and, single-handed, put to flight the whole band
-of attackers, who then knew that one of their number had been false.
-Steps were taken to find out who had disobeyed the command of the old
-witch doctor, and suspicion fell on the warrior who stayed behind to
-fasten his sandal. He became very much afraid when questioned by his
-comrades, and on confessing that he had spoiled the expedition by
-killing a monkey, he was speared to death on the spot.
-
-A story such as this shows the Masai to be very superstitious people
-who believe in omens and ill-luck. They have a word “ngai,” which
-means anything strange that they do not understand, and this is given
-to railways, telegraph lines, and thunderstorms, all of which are
-very terrifying and mysterious. The people believe in four gods, each
-distinguished by a colour. The black god and white god are good, the
-red god is bad, and the blue god neither good nor bad. It is believed
-that all these gods lived in the sky, but only the Black God came to
-earth as a man, and from him are descended the Masai people, who still
-live near the lofty Mount Kenia, the supposed dwelling-place of the
-Black God.
-
-Compared with other peoples of Africa the Masai are not very
-superstitious, though no doubt we should think their beliefs very
-strange and fanciful. No poor man is thought to have a soul that can
-live after his body is dead, but the spirit of a rich man is believed
-to enter a snake, which then visits the tribe and acts in a peculiar
-way to warn them of danger. When rain is badly needed, all women and
-children gather bunches of grass, which are held in the hand, while
-they stand in a circle and pray to the Black God to send water for
-their pastures and cattle.
-
-A thief is punished by a heavy fine of cattle or weapons, which have
-to be paid over to the man from whom goods have been stolen. Sometimes
-a thief is severely beaten; this is usually done when he has been
-previously detected in crime, while if a third theft is committed by
-the same person his hands are burned with a hot stick.
-
-A murderer has to pay all his flocks and herds to the relatives of his
-victim; this is known as paying “blood-money,” a practice which was
-common in our own country in Saxon times. Some laws are very amusing:
-for instance, if two men fight, the injured person may claim eight cows
-for loss of a limb, one cow for a tooth, two cows for the loss of two
-or three teeth; so quarrelling may prove a very expensive pastime.
-
-What then is the end of this life of fighting and cattle rearing? In
-the case of a chief, respectful burial and a belief that the soul of a
-great man will visit the relatives in the form of a snake. But for a
-poor man there is no funeral; the body is carried to the bush, where it
-is soon devoured by hyenas.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER IV
-
-THE AKIKUYU PEOPLE
-
-
-Living quite near to the Masai, but differing from them in very many
-ways, are the Akikuyu, whose territory near Mount Kenia could be
-reached by a long train journey from Mombasa toward Nairobi, followed
-by several hundred miles of travelling on foot.
-
-For centuries the Masai and Akikuyu have been bitter enemies, and in
-the old days the former used to punish their neighbours for selling
-captives to Arab slave traders. The Masai are a pastoral people
-depending entirely on their herds, which must have abundant pasture;
-while, on the other hand, the Akikuyu are tillers of the soil. In
-order to make a tract of land clear for sowing, they are in the habit
-of burning large tracts of forest, a practice which annoys the Masai,
-because herds of cattle shelter under the trees, where they find fresh
-grass, when all the country exposed to the sun is parched and withered.
-
-In warfare these two tribes, the Masai and Akikuyu, employ many
-different methods, for whereas the former are always bold and open in
-attack, the latter are cowardly and treacherous, always preferring
-to lie in wait for small bands of enemies, who may be taken at a
-disadvantage.
-
-When reporting on the Akikuyu tribes, Mr. Hinde, the British
-Commissioner, says:
-
-“They plant gardens with bananas and Indian corn, and live almost
-entirely on vegetable food, their flocks being inconsiderable. Honey
-forms a staple element of their diet. This they collect by hanging
-oblong honey boxes, made of the hollow trunk of a juniper, in the
-trees, and smoking the bees out.
-
-“They till and cultivate the ground, but, as it is not manured, the
-soil is quickly exhausted, and the burning down of large tracts of
-forest is resorted to as a means of procuring fresh land.
-
-[Illustration: A KIKUYU MAN.]
-
-“The Akikuyu are a well-built people, with the broad Negro type of
-countenance and feature. Occasionally they wear their hair long, but
-more often it is twisted into a sort of fringe about three inches in
-length. The young men cover their person with mutton fat and red clay,
-which renders them exceedingly offensive. It has of late years become
-customary for them to carry both shields and spears; the former they
-have copied from the Masai, the latter are of their own design, and
-have a leaf-shaped blade about a foot in length and four inches broad,
-tapering to a point. The handle is wooden, with an iron spike about six
-inches long at the other end. The Akikuyu carry swords, and use bows
-and poisoned arrows. They grow tobacco, which they mix with potash and
-use as snuff; this they carry in a small bottle suspended by a chain
-around the neck.”
-
-Shaving the head is a custom copied from the Masai, but although
-Akikuyu women wear many beads, they do not, like Masai women, decorate
-themselves with large quantities of iron wire and chains.
-
-[Illustration: A KIKUYU GIRL, SHOWING EAR ORNAMENTS.]
-
-Unlike many African tribes, the Akikuyu do not keep poultry, for they
-have a theory that the crowing of cocks at night has in time past
-revealed to an enemy the position of their village.
-
-These villages are by no means easy to find, and so securely are they
-enveloped by the bush, that a traveller might pass quite near without
-knowing that human beings were dwelling close at hand. Both the Akikuyu
-and Wakamba tribes have learned that seclusion in the bush is the best
-way of avoiding onslaughts by the Masai warriors, and this secrecy has
-also made the task of the British Government very difficult.
-
-It is a mistake to suppose that in all parts of Africa there is an
-abundance of wild fruit. The Akikuyu live almost entirely on vegetable
-foods, such as millet, maize, and bananas, but these they have to
-cultivate, the women of the tribe being responsible for all the hoeing
-and hard work in the fields, in addition to the grinding of the grain
-with heavy stones. Other tasks borne by women include the cooking of
-all foods except meat, bringing home produce from the fields, and
-collecting large bundles of firewood. Baking of pottery, too, is an
-occupation for females, who appear to do all the hardest and most
-important work of the tribe.
-
-Mr. Routledge gives a list of foods commonly found among the Akikuyu
-people, whom he has closely studied. The vegetable foods consist of
-maize, beans, or the tubers of the arum lily, and its green stems. A
-favourite food for carrying on a journey is a cake made by boiling
-together various kinds of grain; and as a raw food, a grain very like
-canary seed is used. The Akikuyu like sweet foods, so honeycomb and
-sugar-cane are very popular. When meat is used it is generally made up
-into sausages, which are tied with the inner bark of a bush. Native
-beer is manufactured by allowing sugar-cane juice to ferment.
-
-Huts are circular, with pointed roofs, and as a rule there is no
-opening but a small door, so that lighting and ventilation are not
-enjoyed. As the roof is thatched, smoke from the fire can filter
-through, so there is no need to provide a special hole for its escape.
-In bridge building the Akikuyu are very expert, and in a short time a
-stream is crossed by a suspension bridge of creepers, cleverly arranged
-so as to be hidden among foliage, and so screened from the view of
-enemies.
-
-Fire is produced by means of rapidly twirling a hard shaft of wood,
-the lower end of which rests in a hole formed in a soft piece of
-wood, the dust from which forms the tinder. Dry grass is placed on
-the tinder, ignited by friction; and, as a rule, two natives, one
-twirling a fire stick while the other blows the tinder, will produce a
-flame in three-quarters of a minute. In order to avoid repeating this
-fire-making process too often, smouldering brands are carried during a
-journey.
-
-[Illustration: FIRE-MAKING BY TWIRLING.]
-
-Among the important industries are iron smelting and string making
-from bark and animals’ tendons. The former industry is of very great
-antiquity, and in the oldest legends and stories there are references
-to articles made of iron.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER V
-
-SOCIAL LIFE OF THE AKIKUYU
-
-
-A homestead consisting of only one hut will have its own little
-enclosure, but it is quite possible that a rich man will have several
-huts, one for each of his wives. In former times, when fighting was
-more common than it is to-day, the enclosure surrounding the huts was
-very carefully concealed in green foliage, through which one small
-entrance was made.
-
-Within this enclosure or compound the traveller will see the daily task
-of corn grinding, pottery making, and the manufacture of string bags
-going on apace. The last-named occupation is generally regarded as the
-work of little girls, whose small brothers are equally busy herding the
-goats. The women must be extremely strong, as a result of their hard
-work in carrying loads and cultivating the fields. Mr. Routledge speaks
-of “a girl of about thirteen who came into the camp one night about 11
-p.m., bearing a load of bananas weighing 30 lb., which she had carried
-some fourteen miles since daybreak.”
-
-No wonder that a baby girl is welcome, when there are so many tasks
-for the wives and women to perform. During early childhood the baby
-is carried to the fields on the mother’s back, and although the heat
-is intense and the flies are a great nuisance, Akikuyu children are
-very good and contented. Strange to say, they do not play games, but
-seem to be content when sitting still in the shade; later in life,
-however, when grown up, there is a good deal of time and energy given
-to dancing, which, along with music, is very popular. A girl is married
-at seventeen; then she goes to the hut prepared by her husband, who
-probably paid about thirty goats and a few sheep for his bride. The
-girl, however, is not obliged to marry any man who can pay this amount
-of wealth to her father, and nowhere among savage peoples has the girl
-a greater freedom of choice. When a maiden wishes to show her parents
-that she is in love, she puts small patches of honey on her cheeks
-and forehead; this prevents the father and mother from making any
-arrangements for her betrothal to a man for whom she has no affection.
-There is a great deal of respect shown to old women, probably because
-they are thought to have the power to cast a spell upon, or give the
-“evil eye” to, a person who has offended them.
-
-Among European peoples, boys and girls grow gradually into manhood or
-womanhood, but with the Akikuyu there is a special ceremony at which
-boys and girls are said to be turned into men and women. For many
-months before the great event all boys who intend to be initiated
-practise dancing for long periods, so that they will not be too readily
-exhausted when the day arrives for the public ceremony. The dress of
-a novice is most elaborate, consisting of cat skins, cowrie shells,
-dancing bells, and paint, which covers the entire body with wavy lines.
-Shaving of the head is part of the preparation, and only a small tuft
-of hair is left in the centre of the crown. The dance takes place close
-to a sacred tree, and when all the details of this important ceremony
-are over, the young people are considered to be men and women of their
-tribe.
-
-[Illustration: WOODEN SHOULDER SHIELD, WORN ON THE LEFT SHOULDER AT
-DANCES.]
-
-The closing scenes in the life of a tribesman are very sad, for should
-he be poor and friendless, he may be left to die alone, and only in the
-case of a man of great age and riches is there a respectable burial.
-Generally the body is left in the hut where the patient died, so, of
-course, it is very quickly dragged away and devoured by hyenas.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER VI
-
-THE BAGANDA TRIBE OF UGANDA
-
-
-[Illustration: A BAGANDA HOUSE.]
-
-Half a century ago the Baganda might have been regarded as one of the
-most numerous tribes in Africa, but of late years losses through civil
-war, famine, and sleeping sickness have reduced the numbers to about a
-million. The Baganda are the most advanced in civilisation among all
-Bantu peoples, and for many years their dress, habits, and extreme
-politeness have been noted by travellers, who may now approach within
-200 miles of Baganda territory by making a comfortable train journey
-of 600 miles from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza.
-
-The greater part of the surface of Uganda is hilly, fertile, and well
-watered, and the slopes of the hills are cultivated by natives who grow
-plantain trees, maize, sugar-cane, tobacco, and coffee. Here and there
-dense forests are to be found, and in such regions the Baganda hunt the
-elephant, buffalo, and hippopotamus.
-
-When speaking of this tribe, the Rev. J. Roscoe says: “The Baganda are
-the only Bantu tribe in Eastern Equatorial Africa who do not mutilate
-their persons; they neither extract their teeth nor pierce their ear
-lobes”; nor do they practise any of the deformations which have been
-related in chapters concerning the Masai and Akikuyu.
-
-There are to be found clans with Roman features, and others varying
-from this type to the broad nose and thick lips of a Negro; so too, in
-build there are tall athletic figures over six feet in height, while,
-on the other hand, there are thick-set short-built men only about five
-feet in height.
-
-The colouring, too, varies from jet black to copper colour; and
-stranger still, there are some pure negroes whose skin colour is
-almost white. These people were at one time kept as curiosities in an
-enclosure near to the hut of a native king or great chief. The hair of
-the Baganda is invariably short, black, crisp and woolly; hair on the
-face is either shaved or pulled out, and any sign of beard or moustache
-is regarded as very ugly.
-
-Naturally, in a country where big game abounds, hunting is not only a
-pastime of chiefs and nobles, but a very important means of obtaining
-a food supply. As a rule, elephant hunters were men who had been
-trained from very early childhood, so that they became close observers
-of these animals, followed every movement of the herd, and became
-adepts in launching spears from a secure position in the tops of lofty
-trees. The spear had a broad leaf-shaped blade six inches long, mounted
-on a thick wooden shaft, and a strong arm was necessary in order to
-deliver a powerful, accurate throw. The night before the hunt these
-spears were sharpened, then placed by the altar of Dungu, the god of
-hunting, to whom an offering of beer and a goat was made. At times the
-Baganda huntsman was more open in his methods of attack, and several
-natives, armed only with spears, would creep right up to the herd, and
-after launching their weapons would depend on rapid flight for safety.
-
-Elephant traps were very common, and an unwary animal caught his feet
-in a cord which released a heavy spear from the branches above. All the
-hunters took up the chase of this wounded creature, which was followed
-until it fell exhausted. Foot traps, causing an animal to tumble on a
-sharp spear, placed point uppermost in a pit, were commonly used, and
-what seems most strange, the nerves from the tusks of a dead animal
-were always carefully buried. The Baganda are very superstitious, and
-it was thought that the ghost of an animal killed in the chase would
-attach itself to the buried nerves, instead of haunting the men who
-launched the spears or laid the traps.
-
-Before hunting the lion or leopard, a chief would beat the war drum in
-order to collect his people, who often went forth a thousand strong. A
-few men followed the animal to its lair, then returned to their chief
-to report the exact position. This having been done, a noisy party,
-shouting and beating drums, surrounded the animal’s hiding-place. A
-trapped animal will, of course, fight very fiercely, after rushing
-first in one direction then in another trying to find a means of
-escape, and, as a rule, some one was severely wounded before the
-creature was killed with clubs and spears.
-
-The hippopotamus was hunted, not for food, but because it proved such
-a danger to canoe men, and at night did great damage by wandering over
-cultivated plots of ground. A spear trap might be set in the path from
-a river to pastures, or harpoons were launched by men in canoes, which
-the animal frequently attacked and overturned.
-
-[Illustration: LIZARD-SKIN DRUM, LANGO TRIBE, UGANDA PROTECTORATE.]
-
-The Baganda live very largely on vegetable food, and, as is so often
-the case among primitive people, the women do all the field work.
-True, the husband clears the ground of all shrubs and tall grass, but
-when this work is done his wife performs all the digging, sowing,
-and collecting of the harvest. Ashes from burnt leaves, when washed
-in by the heavy rains, fertilise the soil, and success is sought by
-sacrificing a fowl and pouring out an offering of beer at the roots
-of trees, while the husband says: “Give me this land, and let it be
-fruitful, and let me build my house here, and have children.”
-
-In addition to their hunting and agriculture, the Baganda are very
-fond of trade and barter, and in many villages there is a market-place
-where a salesman must pay fees in order to get permission to sell
-his wares. The king of the Baganda receives these market dues, which
-amount to one-tenth of the produce sold, and as the produce offered
-for sale comprises animals, fish, eggs, salt, sweet potatoes, peas,
-beans, pottery, tobacco, axes, hoes, and rope, the amount of money due
-to royalty must be very great. At the end of a busy market day many
-boys are ready to clean up the market-place, in reward for which they
-get scraps of meat from the slaughter-house, a few coffee berries, or
-a little salt. Money consists of cowrie shells, two hundred of which
-are needed to buy a large earthenware pot; five to ten are given for a
-tobacco pipe; and in striking such bargains as these the busy marketing
-day soon draws to a close.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER VII
-
-SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BAGANDA
-
-
-A traveller among the Baganda tribe may soon learn that the people are
-divided into groups or clans, each of which regards some animal as its
-particular badge or emblem. An arrangement of this kind is not peculiar
-to the Baganda, or even to African natives. Indians of North America,
-Australian natives, and most tribes of the South Sea Islands have a
-similar grouping of the members in clans or “totems,” each having a
-plant or animal which is treated with great respect.
-
-There are a great many rules that members of the clan have to observe.
-For instance, among the natives of the “Leopard” clan no one may eat
-meat which has been torn, so that any animal killed or injured by
-a wild beast must be sold to some other clan. The “Leopards” were
-extremely important people, because from them the king and members of
-the royal family were chosen. In addition to the “Leopards,” there are
-people who call themselves “Lions,” “Otters,” “Elephants,” and even
-“Grasshoppers” and “Mushrooms.” Usually there is a story or tradition
-which is supposed to account for the beginning of this strange
-arrangement. People of the “Lion” clan say that soon after King Kintu
-came to his throne, many, many years ago, he went out to hunt a lion
-and an eagle. When the lion skin was dressed, King Kintu stood upon it
-and announced to his people that, in future, the lion was to be their
-sacred emblem, and although peoples of other clans might hunt the
-creature, members of the “Lion” group were never to take the life of
-their sacred animal. Three animals, the lion, leopard, and eagle, are
-all regarded as the special property of kings, who alone are permitted
-to use the skins.
-
-[Illustration: A BAGANDA MAN.]
-
-The Baganda are a very warlike people, who have constantly increased
-their territory at the expense of neighbours, with whom they have at
-all times been ready to quarrel. At times the king would lead his army
-in person, or again the task might be given to generals, who were
-always elaborately dressed in skins of animals. No mercy was shown to
-a defeated people, who were, of course, despoiled of everything worth
-possessing, and a great deal of the booty was claimed by the king
-of the victorious people. Mr. Roscoe says: “After the spoil had been
-divided, the general gave the order to the chiefs to disband their men
-and let them go home. The important chiefs accompanied the general to
-the capital to report to the king before they were allowed to visit
-their homes; but if there had been a reverse, they, too, went to their
-country residences for some ten days before visiting the king. People
-lined the roads to welcome the army; women ran to meet their husbands
-with gourds of water, took from them their weapons, and were proud to
-carry these as they marched along the crowded roads. Warriors dashed
-at imaginary foes, drums were beaten, fifes were played, and songs of
-victory were sung.”
-
-In times of peace the Baganda amuse themselves by relating interesting
-stories, a few of which are given in the following pages.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER VIII
-
-STORIES TOLD BY THE BAGANDA
-
-
-At one time cats were servants of fowls, to whom they had to pay
-tribute in the form of flying ants, done up in small packets. This duty
-became very irksome, and on several occasions the cats were very much
-inclined to rebel, but were afraid to do so when the fowls threatened
-to burn them with their red combs. At one time, when the cats’ fire had
-gone out a mother cat sent her young one to make fire by placing some
-dry grass near to the red comb of an old rooster who was very drunk and
-fast asleep.
-
-Presently the kitten returned with the report that he could not get
-a light from the red comb of the sleeping cock. This aroused the
-curiosity of the mother cat, and at once she went and convinced herself
-that the cock’s comb, though red, was quite cold. She then wakened the
-rooster, and along with other cats declared that never again would
-she serve the fowls. The fowls saw that their deception was no longer
-of any use, so they came to the nearest village and asked man for his
-protection against the cats.
-
-A lion and a crocodile had a quarrel during which each claimed to
-be the stronger animal. The former said: “I can kill the fiercest
-buffalo,” to which the latter replied: “And I can kill the hippopotamus
-in the water.” The crocodile was basking on the mud near to the
-river’s bank where the lion was devouring a buffalo. Very quickly the
-crocodile seized the leg of the buffalo and pulled both that creature
-and the lion into the river, where they were drowned. This incident
-filled the crocodile with confidence, so that he soon began to boast of
-his strength, especially to the young son of the lion he had killed.
-Naturally the young lion was very angry, and ever in search of revenge,
-which he took one day when the crocodile attempted to play his old
-trick of pulling the young lion and his prey into the river. On this
-occasion the lion proved stronger, for not only did he haul out the
-crocodile on to the mud flats, but quickly settled him with blows from
-his powerful paws. Now the Baganda people declare that the lion and the
-crocodile are of equal strength, the former being king of beasts on
-land, and the latter sovereign of the river.
-
-Now we come to the closing scenes in the life of this interesting
-Baganda tribe. Sickness is never put down to natural causes, such as
-chills, overeating, or heavy drinking. It is always supposed that an
-enemy has worked magic against the sick man, and the medicine man
-of the tribe will usually bleed the patient in order to let out the
-evil magic. The body of the king is embalmed and buried with great
-reverence, and even for the most humble people there is respectful
-interment; methods which are very different from those adopted by the
-Masai and Akikuyu, who leave their dead to be devoured by hyenas.
-
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-BOOKS FOR SCHOOL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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- _Britain across the Seas_, by Sir H. JOHNSTON.
- _British Central Africa_, by A. WERNER.
- _The Baganda_, by the Rev. J. ROSCOE.
- _With a Pre-Historic People_, by W. SCORESBY ROUTLEDGE.
- _The Masai_, by A. C. HOLLIS.
- _The Nandi_, by A. C. HOLLIS.
- _Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan_, by H. A. MACMICHAEL.
- _Northern Bantu_, by the Rev. J. ROSCOE.
- _Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan._
- _Last of the Masai_, by SIDNEY LANGFORD HINDE.
- _British Museum Guide Book to the Ethnographical Collections._
- _Shilluk People_, by WESTERMANN.
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-Transcriber’s Notes
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-<p class="center p0 big"><em><span class="u">Native Races of the British Empire</span></em></p>
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-<h1>THE<br />
-NATIVE RACES OF EAST AFRICA
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-<p class="center p0 p2 small">BY</p>
-<p class="center p0"><span class="big">W. D. HAMBLY, F.R.A.I., <abbr title="bachelor of science">B.Sc.</abbr></span><br />
-<span class="small">(RESEARCH DEGREE, OXON.)</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 p2 small">OXFORD DIPLOMA IN ANTHROPOLOGY<br />
-ASSISTANT ANATOMIST IN THE WELLCOME RESEARCH EXPEDITION<br />
-TO THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN, 1913-14
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-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="big">HUMPHREY MILFORD<br />
-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS</span><br />
-LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW<br />
-TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY<br />
-1920
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-<p>During recent years there has been a very happy tendency to change the
-nature of geographical teaching from a monotonous memorising of the
-names of natural features to a subject of living interest.</p>
-
-<p>In the endeavour to effect this change there has been a serious
-omission in our failure to appeal to natural interests of children by
-making the human element a central feature of geographical work.</p>
-
-<p>A study of the picturesque lives of native races of the British
-Empire is an absolute essential if the teacher wishes to impart the
-appropriate colour and setting to a subsequent course of economic,
-regional, and political geography.</p>
-
-<p>The sharp contrast between European beliefs and customs and those of
-primitive people is in itself an incentive to study and interest.
-In addition to this, a sympathetic understanding of the many native
-races who are controlled by English statesmanship is necessary for the
-material and moral progress of dominions in the British Empire.</p>
-
-<p class="right p0">
-W. D. HAMBLY.
-</p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<table class="autotable">
-<tr>
-<th>
-</th>
-<th class="tdr">
-PAGE
-</th>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">Introduction</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_9">9</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">The Fighting Masai</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_17">17</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">Masai Stories and Beliefs</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_28">28</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">The Akikuyu People</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_33">33</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">Social Life of the Akikuyu</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_38">38</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">The Baganda Tribe of Uganda</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_41">41</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">Social Life of the Baganda</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_46">46</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2" class="tdc">
-<a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">CHAPTER VIII</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td>
-<span class="smcap">Stories told by the Baganda</span>
-</td>
-<td class="tdr">
-<a href="#Page_49">49</a>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img002">
- <img src="images/002.jpg" class="w75" alt="East Africa" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">East Africa</span></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_NATIVE_RACES_OF_EAST_AFRICA">THE NATIVE RACES OF EAST AFRICA</h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I<br />
-<span class="smcap small">Introduction</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>A few years ago two dwarfs or Pygmies from the trackless forests of
-Uganda were bold enough to allow themselves to be brought to London,
-where they were exhibited and photographed. Unfortunately these little
-people had no one who could interpret their language, or what a
-wonderful story they might have told concerning life in an equatorial
-forest, where the foliage is in places so dense as to shut out the
-powerful glare of a tropical sun.</p>
-
-<p>Many years ago these dwarfs were known to the highly civilised
-inhabitants of Ancient Egypt, and as early as 3000 <span class="allsmcap">B.C.</span> the
-leaders of expeditions into the Sudan were charged by the Pharaohs of
-Egypt to return with gold dust, ivory, ornamental woods, and leopard
-skins; but above all these forms of wealth King Pepy <span class="allsmcap">II.</span>
-desired a Pygmy “alive and well.”</p>
-
-<p>These tiny folk, whose height is rarely more than four feet nine
-inches, live the simple life of hunters,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span> almost devoid of clothing,
-possessing neither basket-work nor pottery, and armed only with
-flint-tipped spears and small poisoned arrows. Of agriculture they
-have no knowledge, for their time is wholly occupied by the dangerous
-pursuit of large and small game.</p>
-
-<p>What a sharp contrast to these pygmies are the giant tribes of the
-Upper Nile, where the Shilluks are usually six feet four inches in
-height, and a man of only six feet would be regarded as short!</p>
-
-<p>Many centuries ago, but at what time in the world’s history it is
-impossible to say, a tall, dark-skinned people named Hamites entered
-Africa from the direction of Arabia, and so fierce were these invaders
-that they were able to push before them the negroes, who retreated
-south and west. These fighting Hamites are now represented by the
-Somali, Danakil, and Galla who inhabit the “Horn of Africa,” where they
-subsist chiefly by cattle rearing; that is to say, they are a pastoral
-people, who move from one well and piece of grass land to another,
-driving before them large herds of sheep, goats, camels, and perhaps a
-few horses.</p>
-
-<p>Of course the Hamites mixed with the true negroes to some extent,
-so forming the great Bantu race which inhabits most of our Uganda
-Protectorate. The dreaded Masai of British East Africa are probably a
-cross between the Negro and the Galla. Arab tribes have for centuries
-wandered through East Africa as traders and slave raiders, so we have
-to consider a very mixed people.</p>
-
-<p>What a variety of country, too, in the British<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span> territories called the
-Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Uganda, and British East Africa!</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img003">
- <img src="images/003.jpg" class="w50" alt="Woman crushing Grain on a Concave Stone with an Oval
-Stone Roller" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Woman crushing Grain on a Concave Stone with an Oval
-Stone Roller.</span></p>
-
-
-<p>Everywhere along the banks of the Nile there is fertile country, but
-in the Sudan territories of Kordofan, Sennar, and other provinces,
-are seemingly boundless tracts of desert, broken here and there by
-rocky hills or “gebels,” which perhaps attain a height of three or
-four hundred feet. In such places large dog-faced baboons abound,
-hyenas shelter in the caves, and near to the wells, usually found
-among the rocks, are native encampments, where dwell Arabs, Taishi,
-and Baggara people, who fought so determinedly against the English
-in 1885. Now, however, they are quite friendly,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span> and the traveller
-may be invited into the “zereba,” an enclosure containing a number of
-circular huts with pointed roofs, and here refreshment of coffee and
-milk is provided. Thin miserable dogs bark defiance at the stranger,
-who keeps them at bay with his whip of rhinoceros hide. Little naked
-children play about in much the same way as white youngsters amuse
-themselves, but they are more delighted than their white cousins would
-be by the gift of a wire bracelet or a string of beads. Outside the
-huts kneeling women crush the grain&mdash;“dhurra”&mdash;on slabs of stone; and
-what an enormous pile of this crushed grain a Sudanese will eat! Seldom
-does he enjoy the luxury of meat. A whitish, muddy-looking liquid
-may be offered to the visitor; this he had better avoid, for it is
-native beer, made by allowing soaked “dhurra” to stand in the sunshine
-for several days. If the village population has reached two or three
-thousand, there are sure to be a few Arab merchants who have brought
-their calico, dried dates, and other wares all the way from Khartoum
-or Wad Medani. There they sit by the goods, which are laid out on the
-ground, possibly reading a chapter from the “Koran” or Mohammedan
-Bible, while a small group of natives gather round and decide how to
-spend the money which they have only recently learned to use, instead
-of bartering, that is, changing one article for another.</p>
-
-<p>In many parts of the Sudan natives are employed on irrigation works or
-railways, where the workmen are paid with Egyptian coins. Even now a
-native prefers to have a lot of little coins, and would at<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span> any time
-receive several small coins rather than one silver piece.</p>
-
-<p>Uganda and British East Africa can show enormous tracts of park land,
-where European enterprise is engaged in cattle rearing, and native
-tribes such as the Masai rely on their flocks and herds for a living.
-In no part of the world, not even in the Amazon valley, are the forests
-more dense than those of Uganda, where the traveller finds Bantu tribes
-existing much as they have done for thousands of years.</p>
-
-<p>When reading of railways connecting Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, with
-Khartoum, or of a line from Nairobi in British East Africa to Port
-Florence on Victoria Nyanza thence to the great port of Mombasa, one
-is apt to think that these East African Protectorates must be very
-advanced in civilisation, but this is not the case.</p>
-
-<p>In a journey from Khartoum southward into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan,
-or from Port Sudan to Khartoum, the traveller is very much impressed
-with the luxury of the train in which he travels through the wildest
-scenery, comprising dense prickly bush, dreary wastes of sand, and
-rocky hills. Native children run away screaming on the approach of
-a train. In the journey from Khartoum to the Red Sea one encounters
-the Hadendoa people, who make themselves appear very tall and wild by
-allowing their hair to grow perpendicularly in a huge bush on the top
-of the head. In Uganda and British East Africa the traveller may have
-the experience of having his train charged by a buffalo, rhinoceros, or
-elephant, who mistakes it for some<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span> powerful rival, come to settle in
-the tropical forest which he has enjoyed undisturbed for so many years.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img004">
- <img src="images/004.jpg" class="w75" alt="Collection of tools" />
-</span></p>
-<ul class="index caption" style="margin-left: 10%;">
-<li class="ifrst">1, 2. Throwing-clubs from the Nile Valley.
-</li>
-<li class="ifrst">3. Pot from which victims for sacrifice were made to drink a magic
-draught to “kill” their souls, and thus prevent their “ghosts” from
-returning to punish their murderers.</li>
-<li class="ifrst">4. Conventional hoe-blades used as money (Upper Nile).</li>
-<li class="ifrst">5. Small shield of the Hamites, west of Victoria Nyanza (Uganda).</li>
-<li class="ifrst">6, 7. Old and modern Masai spears.</li>
-<li class="ifrst">8, 9. Fighting bracelets (Upper Nile).</li>
-<li class="ifrst">10. A Dorobo elephant harpoon (East Africa Protectorate). The arrow
-shaft fits loosely into the haft, which falls away when the animal is
-struck.</li>
-<li class="ifrst">11. Spear of the Hamitic tribes.</li>
-<li class="ifrst">12, 13, 14. Pottery vases blackened with plumbago. One is in the form
-of a gourd (Baganda, Uganda).</li>
-<li class="ifrst">15. Ivory armlet, Shilluk tribe (Upper Nile).</li>
-<li class="ifrst">16, 17. Tobacco pipes (Upper Nile).</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The savage peoples of East Africa are in many ways much more advanced
-in civilisation than the native tribes of Australia. The latter are
-simple hunters, possessing no clothing, no dwellings, no knowledge of
-metals, pottery making, or basket weaving. On the other hand, native
-inhabitants of East Africa have left the Stone Age far behind, and
-almost everywhere a knowledge of iron ore, smelting, and manufacture
-of spear-heads has been acquired. Ancient stone implements are found
-in all parts of Africa, but it is generally supposed that knowledge of
-iron came to the “Dark Continent” at a fairly early date in the history
-of civilisation.</p>
-
-<p>Everywhere the Negro is an agriculturist, whose women folk cultivate
-the yam, maize, or banana, whereas a simple hunting tribe in Australia
-will rely entirely for vegetable foods on what can be collected in the
-way of wild fruits and berries.</p>
-
-<p>With respect to clothing, weapons, dwellings, pottery, basketry,
-agriculture, and other forms of manufacture and enterprise, the
-inhabitants of East Africa are well advanced, while everywhere there
-is a great system of exchange or barter, which is not always found
-among more primitive savages, such as the Australian native tribes.
-Naturally, in so vast an area there are thousands of tribes, hence in
-this small book there will be space to tell only of a few of the most
-interesting inhabitants, who had their home in the “Dark<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span> Continent”
-long before the explorers Livingstone, Stanley, Mungo Park, Baker,
-Burton, Speke, or even early voyagers like Father Lado, Hanno, and the
-centurions of Nero ventured to penetrate the wilds.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II<br />
-<span class="smcap small">The Fighting Masai</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p>In the year 1895 British East Africa, formerly governed under a Royal
-Charter held by the Imperial British East Africa Company, came directly
-under the management of the British Foreign Office. Thanks to the
-assistance of the Masai, hostile tribes, such as the Wakamba, were
-completely subdued; and on our side it may be said that protection was
-given to the Masai against their treacherous and warlike neighbours the
-Akikuyu.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps the term “warlike” should no longer be applied to Masai
-tribesmen, for of late years they have been extremely peaceful.
-Misfortunes, such as loss of cattle by a disease called “rinderpest,”
-and outbreaks of small-pox, have made this very independent tribe rely
-on the British Government for advice and protection.</p>
-
-<p>There are certain points in which the Masai resemble Zulu tribes; for
-instance, their fighting men must not marry, and there is a royal
-family from which a chief is always selected. Some of the marriage
-customs are very similar, and among both Zulus and Masai there are like
-methods of painting warriors’ shields in order to distinguish companies
-and larger units. Against all these points of comparison<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span> there is one
-important fact, namely, difference in language, which very strongly
-suggests that the Zulus and Masai are not related.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img005">
- <img src="images/005.jpg" class="w75" alt="A Masai Village" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">A Masai Village.</span></p>
-
-<p>Though slaves are unknown amongst the Masai, there are a servile people
-named the Dorobo who have to obey the commands of their masters; but,
-on the other hand, they receive wages, and must not be bought or
-sold. Very probably these people who serve the Masai were at one time
-captured and enslaved; now they do not possess any cattle, and as a
-rule the hardest work falls to their lot. An East African official,
-<abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Hinde, says of these Dorobo: “They do not build kraals after the
-manner of the Masai, but inhabit clusters of badly built huts hidden
-in the bush. In war they are not allowed to accompany the Masai, or to
-carry shields and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span> spears. Their weapons consist of a bow, poisoned
-arrows, and a heavy wooden-handled spear, into one end of which a
-massive arrow-head is placed. This arrow-head is thickly smeared with
-poison. In attacking large game, such as the elephant, hippopotamus,
-or rhinoceros, they drive the arrow-head into the animal, whereupon
-the heavy shaft drops off and is recovered. A new tip is fitted, and
-the native, following the wounded animal, shoots these poisoned arrows
-until the creature drops from exhaustion.”</p>
-
-<p>A Masai chief is a person of the greatest importance; and in former
-days, when the tribe was about to undertake a great raid on some
-neighbouring people, the king would throw himself into a trance, in
-which he had visions of the proper way of conducting an attack or
-defence. On other occasions his power of second sight caused him to
-foretell possible calamities, and before waking he suggested some means
-of avoiding them.</p>
-
-<p>Very probably the king practised a good deal of deception, for it is
-well known that he had a secret service system which informed him of
-all that was taking place in his own and adjacent tribes. A son of the
-royal house will always preserve his father’s skull, which, if kept
-near, is supposed to bring good luck, and assist in ruling the country.
-The bodies of ordinary people are just allowed to remain in the bush,
-and a funeral, burial, and mound of stones are given only to members of
-the royal household.</p>
-
-<p>The Masai are a very bright, intelligent, and truthful people; very
-rarely will a full-grown man commit a theft or tell a lie. Unlike many<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>
-African tribes, these people have no musical instruments, and their
-few war songs and verses, sung while herding cattle, are very simple.
-Generally speaking, African natives are musical, and flutes, drums,
-also stringed instruments are very ingeniously made.</p>
-
-<p>Of the personal appearance of the Masai, <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Hinde has said: “The adult
-male Masai may be described as tall and spare, with sloping shoulders
-and small hands and feet. The sloping shoulders are probably due to
-a complete absence of manual labour, and to the constant carrying
-of a shield or spear in either hand, each weapon weighing eight or
-nine pounds. Compared with his height an average Masai could not be
-considered broad-chested. A habit of stooping, and leaning the head
-forward when running, gives a slovenly appearance, only slightly
-detracted from by an abnormally long stride. They are extraordinarily
-fleet of foot, and can run without tiring for incredible distances.
-Their usual pace is a long loping trot.”</p>
-
-<p>One very strange custom, looked upon as a means of ornamenting the
-head, is boring the ear lobe and inserting an object of large size.
-From time to time a larger object is put into the hole until the ear
-becomes enormously distended; some natives have been seen with ear
-ornaments consisting of one-pound jam tins inserted in holes made in
-the ear lobes.</p>
-
-<p>Some women prefer lip ornaments of great size, which must be in the way
-at meal-times. The method of introducing these studs is similar to that
-employed for fitting large ear ornaments. A small hole is filled with a
-thin plug of wood, the size of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span> which is gradually increased. As a rule
-a lip stud projects into the wearer’s mouth, so that at least two teeth
-have to be extracted.</p>
-
-<p>Another favourite form of ornament consists of burning the skin with
-acid juices derived from plants. Small circular scars arranged in
-patterns are made, and in the Shilluk tribe of the Nile Valley men have
-four rows of such scars right across their foreheads. Women of the
-tribe have two or three rows. Sometimes these scars are made merely for
-ornament, or the marks may serve to show the tribe to which a person
-belongs.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img006">
- <img src="images/006.jpg" class="w50" alt="Mittu Woman, showing Lip Ornament and Tattooing by Scars
-(Cicatrisation)" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Mittu Woman, showing Lip Ornament and Tattooing by Scars
-(Cicatrisation).</span></p>
-
-<p>Kavirondo men and their near neighbours, the Masai, are great warriors.
-In the latter tribe boys serve a long arduous military training, and
-it is a proud day when they are allowed to assume the full war-time
-outfit. The headdress helps to conceal people who are crouching among
-long grass. The armlets are merely ornamental, but the patterns on
-shields denote the military unit to which the warriors belong.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img007">
- <img src="images/007.jpg" class="w75" alt="Warriors of the Kavirondo Tribe in Feather
-Head-Dresses" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Warriors of the Kavirondo Tribe in Feather
-Head-Dresses.</span></p>
-
-<p>Men, women, and children have clean shaven heads, and it is quite an
-exception for a man to show any sign of beard or moustache. Although
-washing the body and clothing is unpopular, the Masai have great pride
-in their teeth, of which most<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span> perfect care is taken, and whiteness
-and polish are obtained by frequent use of a small stick. Knocking out
-the upper central teeth is a strange custom, said by the people to
-have been invented at a time<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span> when there were many cases of lock-jaw,
-and the patients had to be fed through the hole made by extracting
-these teeth. In some instances small pieces of iron are worn, not as
-ornaments, but as a protection against, or cure for disease.</p>
-
-<p>All over the Sudan this wearing of charms is common, and amongst the
-Mohammedan people the amulet is made by wrapping a verse from the Koran
-in a roll of leather, generally worn round the neck or on the arm.</p>
-
-<p>The ornaments worn by Masai women are most noticeable, and the
-traveller is surprised that the wearers can move arms and legs
-sufficiently well to perform their work. Iron wire is wound round the
-arms from wrist to elbow and from elbow to shoulder; the legs also are
-encased in iron wire from ankle to knee-joint. Metal collars, which
-look most uncomfortable, are still made and worn by women and boys,
-who seem willing to tolerate any amount of discomfort rather than go
-without these ornaments.</p>
-
-<p>Amongst the Masai there is a belief that ill luck will follow if a
-man is called by his own name, and to avoid this he must always be
-addressed by his father’s name. When asked for his name, a man will
-always give that of his father; his own name must be inquired from some
-third person. As among ourselves, names are handed down from father to
-son, and among the Masai the father’s name is almost invariably given
-to his favourite son. Superstitions with regard to names are carried
-still further. Suppose several people in the tribe have the same name,
-this must be changed immediately on the death of one of them, for it
-would be<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span> considered very unlucky to retain the name of some one who
-had just died.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img008">
- <img src="images/008.jpg" class="w50" alt="Lumbwa Woman and Girl, showing Dress and Ornaments
-of Wire, etc" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Lumbwa Woman and Girl, showing Dress and Ornaments
-of Wire, etc.</span></p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
-
-<p>Boys of the Masai tribe have a very hard, unhappy life, for not only
-are they made to do all the hard work of carrying, milking and driving
-cattle, but in addition every one treats them harshly, and a boy
-may not even speak to one of the warriors. Presently the conditions
-improve, and elder boys go out shooting birds with bows and arrows,
-in order to get feathers for making mantles worn by warriors. At
-last the youth reaches an age at which he is allowed to live in the
-warriors’ camp, where there is strict training, and no excess in eating
-or drinking is allowed; smoking is quite forbidden. As the military
-training advances, the boy becomes the proud possessor of a painted
-shield, a spear, a sword, and a knobkerry or club. These weapons are
-kept in perfect condition, the spear-heads being brightly polished with
-a hard stone. Warriors are the only people allowed to grow their hair,
-and each fighting man possesses a “pig-tail,” of which he is very proud.</p>
-
-<p>Before making an attack, Masai warriors chew bark from the mimosa tree.
-This acts in such a way as to make them nearly mad with ferocity,
-and when all are very wild and excited the enemy is engaged. Enemies
-face one another in long lines, and instead of a general attack being
-launched single pairs are engaged in combats which are a fight to the
-death. In case of success the victors will seize the best cattle,
-which are driven off to the pastures of the conquerors. It is said
-that the Masai never attack by night or by stealth; there is always
-a preliminary warning and invitation to “come out and fight to the
-death.”</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p>
-
-<p>Although young boys have such a hard time in order to make them fit to
-be trained as fighters, girls of the tribe are very kindly treated.
-Young maidens spend a great deal of time in singing, dancing, and
-ornamenting themselves; as a rule, they do not even cook their own
-food. Old women have all the hard menial work to perform, and very hard
-is their lot in building huts, carrying loads when the tribe moves,
-collecting firewood, and keeping night watches. Speaking of old women
-in the Masai tribe, <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Hinde says: “As long as she can crawl about she
-continues her labours, and death is the only release she can hope for.”
-As a rule, a girl becomes the wife of a man who can afford to pay goats
-and cattle for her; but the Masai parents consider their daughter’s
-wishes, and she is not obliged to become the wife of a man she does not
-like.</p>
-
-<p>The life of Masai people depends almost entirely on herds of goats and
-cattle, which are driven from pasture to pasture. Reptiles, birds,
-insects, and fish are never eaten, grain only at times when meat is
-scarce, while a favourite food is blood, drawn from the neck of a cow
-by making a small puncture with an arrow, in such a way as to avoid
-injuring the animal severely. Herds of cattle, though very docile and
-easily managed by small children, are extremely fierce, and well able
-to protect themselves against attacks made by hyenas or a leopard.</p>
-
-<p>Though so bold in warfare the Masai are not a race of hunters, and big
-game such as lions, leopards, or the rhinoceros are attacked only when
-the skin<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span> is required, or the animal has become a menace to the herds
-of cattle.</p>
-
-<p>Among the industries, smelting of iron in clay furnaces is very
-important, as it provides spear-heads and ornaments. These are not
-moulded by allowing molten metal to run into vessels, but the ore,
-heated in a charcoal fire, is beaten into shape while resting on a
-block of hard wood or stone.</p>
-
-<p>Clay taken from river beds serves as material for making earthenware
-vessels, which are baked hard in a fire after being moulded by hand
-into the shape required. Other vessels are made from gourds, while as a
-pastime the carving of wooden pipes and ornamenting the bowls is very
-common.</p>
-
-<p>Hut building with such materials as hides, mud, and sticks, likewise
-the construction of a stone and bush enclosure round the village,
-take a great deal of time; so also does a complete removal to fresh
-pastures. Hence in one way or another the time of these people is fully
-occupied, and it is a great mistake to suppose that all black people
-are lazy and indolent.</p>
-
-<p>There must, of course, be time for leisure, which is sometimes spent in
-telling the stories given in the next chapter.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III<br />
-<span class="smcap small">Masai Stories and Beliefs</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>At all periods of the world’s history human beings have been fond of
-stories concerning animals, and the Masai are no exception to the
-general rule. Here is a story of the hare and the elephants, one of a
-number collected by <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Hollis, who resided among the Masai for several
-years:</p>
-
-<p>“A hare, that lived near a river, one day saw some elephants going to
-the kraals of their father-in-law. He said to the biggest one, who was
-carrying a bag of honey: ‘Father, ferry me across, for I am a poor
-person.’ The elephant told him to get on his back, and when he had
-climbed up they started.</p>
-
-<p>“While they were crossing the river the hare ate the honey, and as he
-was eating it he let some of the juice fall on the elephant’s back.
-On being asked what he was dropping, he replied that he was weeping,
-and that it was the tears of a poor child that were falling. When they
-reached the opposite bank the hare asked the elephants to give him some
-stones to throw at the birds. He was given some stones, which he put
-into the honey bag. He then asked to be set down, and as soon as he was
-on the ground again he told the elephants to be off.</p>
-
-<p>“They continued their journey until they reached<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span> the kraal of the big
-one’s father-in-law, where they opened the honey bag. When they found
-that stones had been substituted for honey they jumped up and returned
-to search for the hare, whom they found feeding. As they approached,
-however, the hare saw them and entered a hole. The biggest elephant
-thrust his trunk into the hole and seized him by the leg, whereupon the
-hare cried out: ‘I think you have caught hold of a root!’ On hearing
-this the elephant let go and seized a root. The hare then cried out:
-‘You have broken me! You have broken me!’ which made the elephant pull
-all the harder, until at length he became tired.</p>
-
-<p>“While the elephant was pulling at the root the hare slipped out of
-the hole and ran away. As he ran he met some baboons, and called out
-to them to help him. They inquired why he was running so fast, and he
-replied that he was being chased by a great big person. The baboons
-told him to go and sit down, and promised not to give him up. Presently
-the elephant arrived, and asked if the hare had passed that way. The
-baboons inquired whether he would give them anything if they pointed
-out the hare’s hiding-place. The elephant said he would give them
-whatever they asked for, and when they said they wanted a cup full of
-his blood, he consented to give it them, after satisfying himself that
-the cup was small. The baboons then shot an arrow into his neck and the
-blood gushed forth. After the elephant had lost a considerable quantity
-of blood he inquired if the cup was not full. But the baboons had made
-a hole in the bottom of the cup, which was still half empty. The
-elephant<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span> suddenly felt very tired, lay down and died, upon which the
-hare came from his hiding-place to continue his journey.”</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img009">
- <img src="images/009.jpg" class="w75" alt="Primitive Smelting Furnace, and Section of same,
-showing Blast-Pipes, Fuel, and Ore" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Primitive Smelting Furnace, and Section of same,
-showing Blast-Pipes, Fuel, and Ore.</span></p>
-
-<p>Some stories are concerned with the work of evil spirits, and, of
-course, tales connected with warriors’ exploits are very popular.
-Before setting out on a raiding expedition a band of warriors consulted
-a wise man of the tribe, known as the “medicine man,” who said that
-the expedition would be unsuccessful if any warrior killed a monkey
-while on the march. A coward who heard this made up his mind that
-he would kill a monkey, then perhaps the attacking band would run
-instead of fighting. On the way to the scene of the combat this coward
-observed some monkeys, so, pretending to stay behind in order to fasten
-his sandal, he killed one of the animals, then quickly rejoined his
-comrades,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span> who by this time were near the village they intended to
-attack. Outside a kraal an old man was seated, and at once a club was
-thrown at him by one of the Masai warriors. This did not appear to harm
-him in the slightest, for he only complained of the flies, in fact he
-seemed to be proof against all the clubs and spears launched against
-him. Presently he rose and, single-handed, put to flight the whole band
-of attackers, who then knew that one of their number had been false.
-Steps were taken to find out who had disobeyed the command of the old
-witch doctor, and suspicion fell on the warrior who stayed behind to
-fasten his sandal. He became very much afraid when questioned by his
-comrades, and on confessing that he had spoiled the expedition by
-killing a monkey, he was speared to death on the spot.</p>
-
-<p>A story such as this shows the Masai to be very superstitious people
-who believe in omens and ill-luck. They have a word “ngai,” which
-means anything strange that they do not understand, and this is given
-to railways, telegraph lines, and thunderstorms, all of which are
-very terrifying and mysterious. The people believe in four gods, each
-distinguished by a colour. The black god and white god are good, the
-red god is bad, and the blue god neither good nor bad. It is believed
-that all these gods lived in the sky, but only the Black God came to
-earth as a man, and from him are descended the Masai people, who still
-live near the lofty Mount Kenia, the supposed dwelling-place of the
-Black God.</p>
-
-<p>Compared with other peoples of Africa the Masai<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span> are not very
-superstitious, though no doubt we should think their beliefs very
-strange and fanciful. No poor man is thought to have a soul that can
-live after his body is dead, but the spirit of a rich man is believed
-to enter a snake, which then visits the tribe and acts in a peculiar
-way to warn them of danger. When rain is badly needed, all women and
-children gather bunches of grass, which are held in the hand, while
-they stand in a circle and pray to the Black God to send water for
-their pastures and cattle.</p>
-
-<p>A thief is punished by a heavy fine of cattle or weapons, which have
-to be paid over to the man from whom goods have been stolen. Sometimes
-a thief is severely beaten; this is usually done when he has been
-previously detected in crime, while if a third theft is committed by
-the same person his hands are burned with a hot stick.</p>
-
-<p>A murderer has to pay all his flocks and herds to the relatives of his
-victim; this is known as paying “blood-money,” a practice which was
-common in our own country in Saxon times. Some laws are very amusing:
-for instance, if two men fight, the injured person may claim eight cows
-for loss of a limb, one cow for a tooth, two cows for the loss of two
-or three teeth; so quarrelling may prove a very expensive pastime.</p>
-
-<p>What then is the end of this life of fighting and cattle rearing? In
-the case of a chief, respectful burial and a belief that the soul of a
-great man will visit the relatives in the form of a snake. But for a
-poor man there is no funeral; the body is carried to the bush, where it
-is soon devoured by hyenas.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV<br />
-<span class="smcap small">The Akikuyu People</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>Living quite near to the Masai, but differing from them in very many
-ways, are the Akikuyu, whose territory near Mount Kenia could be
-reached by a long train journey from Mombasa toward Nairobi, followed
-by several hundred miles of travelling on foot.</p>
-
-<p>For centuries the Masai and Akikuyu have been bitter enemies, and in
-the old days the former used to punish their neighbours for selling
-captives to Arab slave traders. The Masai are a pastoral people
-depending entirely on their herds, which must have abundant pasture;
-while, on the other hand, the Akikuyu are tillers of the soil. In
-order to make a tract of land clear for sowing, they are in the habit
-of burning large tracts of forest, a practice which annoys the Masai,
-because herds of cattle shelter under the trees, where they find fresh
-grass, when all the country exposed to the sun is parched and withered.</p>
-
-<p>In warfare these two tribes, the Masai and Akikuyu, employ many
-different methods, for whereas the former are always bold and open in
-attack, the latter are cowardly and treacherous, always preferring
-to lie in wait for small bands of enemies, who may be taken at a
-disadvantage.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p>
-
-<p>When reporting on the Akikuyu tribes, <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Hinde, the British
-Commissioner, says:</p>
-
-<p>“They plant gardens with bananas and Indian corn, and live almost
-entirely on vegetable food, their flocks being inconsiderable. Honey
-forms a staple element of their diet. This they collect by hanging
-oblong honey boxes, made of the hollow trunk of a juniper, in the
-trees, and smoking the bees out.</p>
-
-<p>“They till and cultivate the ground, but, as it is not manured, the
-soil is quickly exhausted, and the burning down of large tracts of
-forest is resorted to as a means of procuring fresh land.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img010">
- <img src="images/010.jpg" class="w50" alt="A Kikuyu Man" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">A Kikuyu Man.</span></p>
-
-<p>“The Akikuyu are a well-built people, with the broad Negro type of
-countenance and feature. Occasionally they wear their hair long, but
-more often it is twisted into a sort of fringe about three inches in
-length. The young men cover their person with mutton fat and red clay,
-which renders them exceedingly offensive. It has of late years become
-customary for them to carry both shields and spears; the former they<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span>
-have copied from the Masai, the latter are of their own design, and
-have a leaf-shaped blade about a foot in length and four inches broad,
-tapering to a point. The handle is wooden, with an iron spike about six
-inches long at the other end. The Akikuyu carry swords, and use bows
-and poisoned arrows. They grow tobacco, which they mix with potash and
-use as snuff; this they carry in a small bottle suspended by a chain
-around the neck.”</p>
-
-<p>Shaving the head is a custom copied from the Masai, but although
-Akikuyu women wear many beads, they do not, like Masai women, decorate
-themselves with large quantities of iron wire and chains.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img011">
- <img src="images/011.jpg" class="w50" alt="A Kikuyu Girl, showing Ear Ornaments" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">A Kikuyu Girl, showing Ear Ornaments.</span></p>
-
-<p>Unlike many African tribes, the Akikuyu do not keep poultry, for they
-have a theory that the crowing of cocks at night has in time past
-revealed to an enemy the position of their village.</p>
-
-<p>These villages are by no means easy to find, and so securely are they
-enveloped by the bush, that a traveller might pass quite near without
-knowing that human beings were dwelling close at hand. Both the Akikuyu
-and Wakamba tribes have learned that seclusion in the bush is the best
-way of avoiding onslaughts by the Masai warriors, and this secrecy has
-also<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span> made the task of the British Government very difficult.</p>
-
-<p>It is a mistake to suppose that in all parts of Africa there is an
-abundance of wild fruit. The Akikuyu live almost entirely on vegetable
-foods, such as millet, maize, and bananas, but these they have to
-cultivate, the women of the tribe being responsible for all the hoeing
-and hard work in the fields, in addition to the grinding of the grain
-with heavy stones. Other tasks borne by women include the cooking of
-all foods except meat, bringing home produce from the fields, and
-collecting large bundles of firewood. Baking of pottery, too, is an
-occupation for females, who appear to do all the hardest and most
-important work of the tribe.</p>
-
-<p><abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Routledge gives a list of foods commonly found among the Akikuyu
-people, whom he has closely studied. The vegetable foods consist of
-maize, beans, or the tubers of the arum lily, and its green stems. A
-favourite food for carrying on a journey is a cake made by boiling
-together various kinds of grain; and as a raw food, a grain very like
-canary seed is used. The Akikuyu like sweet foods, so honeycomb and
-sugar-cane are very popular. When meat is used it is generally made up
-into sausages, which are tied with the inner bark of a bush. Native
-beer is manufactured by allowing sugar-cane juice to ferment.</p>
-
-<p>Huts are circular, with pointed roofs, and as a rule there is no
-opening but a small door, so that lighting and ventilation are not
-enjoyed. As the roof is thatched, smoke from the fire can filter
-through, so there is no need to provide a special hole for its<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span> escape.
-In bridge building the Akikuyu are very expert, and in a short time a
-stream is crossed by a suspension bridge of creepers, cleverly arranged
-so as to be hidden among foliage, and so screened from the view of
-enemies.</p>
-
-<p>Fire is produced by means of rapidly twirling a hard shaft of wood,
-the lower end of which rests in a hole formed in a soft piece of
-wood, the dust from which forms the tinder. Dry grass is placed on
-the tinder, ignited by friction; and, as a rule, two natives, one
-twirling a fire stick while the other blows the tinder, will produce a
-flame in three-quarters of a minute. In order to avoid repeating this
-fire-making process too often, smouldering brands are carried during a
-journey.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img012">
- <img src="images/012.jpg" class="w50" alt="Fire-Making by Twirling" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Fire-Making by Twirling.</span></p>
-
-
-<p>Among the important industries are iron smelting and string making
-from bark and animals’ tendons. The former industry is of very great
-antiquity, and in the oldest legends and stories there are references
-to articles made of iron.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V<br />
-<span class="smcap small">Social Life of the Akikuyu</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>A homestead consisting of only one hut will have its own little
-enclosure, but it is quite possible that a rich man will have several
-huts, one for each of his wives. In former times, when fighting was
-more common than it is to-day, the enclosure surrounding the huts was
-very carefully concealed in green foliage, through which one small
-entrance was made.</p>
-
-<p>Within this enclosure or compound the traveller will see the daily task
-of corn grinding, pottery making, and the manufacture of string bags
-going on apace. The last-named occupation is generally regarded as the
-work of little girls, whose small brothers are equally busy herding the
-goats. The women must be extremely strong, as a result of their hard
-work in carrying loads and cultivating the fields. <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Routledge speaks
-of “a girl of about thirteen who came into the camp one night about 11
-p.m., bearing a load of bananas weighing 30 <abbr title="pounds">lb.</abbr>, which she had carried
-some fourteen miles since daybreak.”</p>
-
-<p>No wonder that a baby girl is welcome, when there are so many tasks
-for the wives and women to perform. During early childhood the baby
-is<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span> carried to the fields on the mother’s back, and although the heat
-is intense and the flies are a great nuisance, Akikuyu children are
-very good and contented. Strange to say, they do not play games, but
-seem to be content when sitting still in the shade; later in life,
-however, when grown up, there is a good deal of time and energy given
-to dancing, which, along with music, is very popular. A girl is married
-at seventeen; then she goes to the hut prepared by her husband, who
-probably paid about thirty goats and a few sheep for his bride. The
-girl, however, is not obliged to marry any man who can pay this amount
-of wealth to her father, and nowhere among savage peoples has the girl
-a greater freedom of choice. When a maiden wishes to show her parents
-that she is in love, she puts small patches of honey on her cheeks
-and forehead; this prevents the father and mother from making any
-arrangements for her betrothal to a man for whom she has no affection.
-There is a great deal of respect shown to old women, probably because
-they are thought to have the power to cast a spell upon, or give the
-“evil eye” to, a person who has offended them.</p>
-
-<p>Among European peoples, boys and girls grow gradually into manhood or
-womanhood, but with the Akikuyu there is a special ceremony at which
-boys and girls are said to be turned into men and women. For many
-months before the great event all boys who intend to be initiated
-practise dancing for long periods, so that they will not be too readily
-exhausted when the day arrives for the public ceremony. The dress of
-a novice is most elaborate,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span> consisting of cat skins, cowrie shells,
-dancing bells, and paint, which covers the entire body with wavy lines.
-Shaving of the head is part of the preparation, and only a small tuft
-of hair is left in the centre of the crown. The dance takes place close
-to a sacred tree, and when all the details of this important ceremony
-are over, the young people are considered to be men and women of their
-tribe.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img013">
- <img src="images/013.jpg" class="w45" alt="Wooden Shoulder Shield, worn on the Left Shoulder at Dances" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Wooden Shoulder Shield, worn on the Left Shoulder at Dances.</span></p>
-
-<p>The closing scenes in the life of a tribesman are very sad, for should
-he be poor and friendless, he may be left to die alone, and only in the
-case of a man of great age and riches is there a respectable burial.
-Generally the body is left in the hut where the patient died, so, of
-course, it is very quickly dragged away and devoured by hyenas.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI<br />
-<span class="smcap small">The Baganda Tribe of Uganda</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img014">
- <img src="images/014.jpg" class="w75" alt="A Baganda House" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">A Baganda House.</span></p>
-
-<p>Half a century ago the Baganda might have been regarded as one of the
-most numerous tribes in Africa, but of late years losses through civil
-war, famine, and sleeping sickness have reduced the numbers to about a
-million. The Baganda are the most advanced in civilisation among all
-Bantu peoples, and for many years their dress, habits, and extreme
-politeness have been noted by travellers, who may now approach within
-200 miles of Baganda territory by making a comfortable<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span> train journey
-of 600 miles from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza.</p>
-
-<p>The greater part of the surface of Uganda is hilly, fertile, and well
-watered, and the slopes of the hills are cultivated by natives who grow
-plantain trees, maize, sugar-cane, tobacco, and coffee. Here and there
-dense forests are to be found, and in such regions the Baganda hunt the
-elephant, buffalo, and hippopotamus.</p>
-
-<p>When speaking of this tribe, the <abbr title="reverend">Rev.</abbr> J. Roscoe says: “The Baganda are
-the only Bantu tribe in Eastern Equatorial Africa who do not mutilate
-their persons; they neither extract their teeth nor pierce their ear
-lobes”; nor do they practise any of the deformations which have been
-related in chapters concerning the Masai and Akikuyu.</p>
-
-<p>There are to be found clans with Roman features, and others varying
-from this type to the broad nose and thick lips of a Negro; so too, in
-build there are tall athletic figures over six feet in height, while,
-on the other hand, there are thick-set short-built men only about five
-feet in height.</p>
-
-<p>The colouring, too, varies from jet black to copper colour; and
-stranger still, there are some pure negroes whose skin colour is
-almost white. These people were at one time kept as curiosities in an
-enclosure near to the hut of a native king or great chief. The hair of
-the Baganda is invariably short, black, crisp and woolly; hair on the
-face is either shaved or pulled out, and any sign of beard or moustache
-is regarded as very ugly.</p>
-
-<p>Naturally, in a country where big game abounds, hunting is not only a
-pastime of chiefs and nobles,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span> but a very important means of obtaining
-a food supply. As a rule, elephant hunters were men who had been
-trained from very early childhood, so that they became close observers
-of these animals, followed every movement of the herd, and became
-adepts in launching spears from a secure position in the tops of lofty
-trees. The spear had a broad leaf-shaped blade six inches long, mounted
-on a thick wooden shaft, and a strong arm was necessary in order to
-deliver a powerful, accurate throw. The night before the hunt these
-spears were sharpened, then placed by the altar of Dungu, the god of
-hunting, to whom an offering of beer and a goat was made. At times the
-Baganda huntsman was more open in his methods of attack, and several
-natives, armed only with spears, would creep right up to the herd, and
-after launching their weapons would depend on rapid flight for safety.</p>
-
-<p>Elephant traps were very common, and an unwary animal caught his feet
-in a cord which released a heavy spear from the branches above. All the
-hunters took up the chase of this wounded creature, which was followed
-until it fell exhausted. Foot traps, causing an animal to tumble on a
-sharp spear, placed point uppermost in a pit, were commonly used, and
-what seems most strange, the nerves from the tusks of a dead animal
-were always carefully buried. The Baganda are very superstitious, and
-it was thought that the ghost of an animal killed in the chase would
-attach itself to the buried nerves, instead of haunting the men who
-launched the spears or laid the traps.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span></p>
-
-<p>Before hunting the lion or leopard, a chief would beat the war drum in
-order to collect his people, who often went forth a thousand strong. A
-few men followed the animal to its lair, then returned to their chief
-to report the exact position. This having been done, a noisy party,
-shouting and beating drums, surrounded the animal’s hiding-place. A
-trapped animal will, of course, fight very fiercely, after rushing
-first in one direction then in another trying to find a means of
-escape, and, as a rule, some one was severely wounded before the
-creature was killed with clubs and spears.</p>
-
-<p>The hippopotamus was hunted, not for food, but because it proved such
-a danger to canoe men, and at night did great damage by wandering over
-cultivated plots of ground. A spear trap might be set in the path from
-a river to pastures, or harpoons were launched by men in canoes, which
-the animal frequently attacked and overturned.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img015">
- <img src="images/015.jpg" class="w50" alt="Lizard-Skin Drum, Lango Tribe, Uganda Protectorate" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">Lizard-Skin Drum, Lango Tribe, Uganda Protectorate.</span></p>
-
-<p>The Baganda live very largely on vegetable food, and, as is so often
-the case among primitive people, the women do all the field work.
-True, the husband clears the ground of all shrubs and tall grass, but
-when this work is done his wife performs all the digging, sowing,
-and collecting of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span> the harvest. Ashes from burnt leaves, when washed
-in by the heavy rains, fertilise the soil, and success is sought by
-sacrificing a fowl and pouring out an offering of beer at the roots
-of trees, while the husband says: “Give me this land, and let it be
-fruitful, and let me build my house here, and have children.”</p>
-
-<p>In addition to their hunting and agriculture, the Baganda are very
-fond of trade and barter, and in many villages there is a market-place
-where a salesman must pay fees in order to get permission to sell
-his wares. The king of the Baganda receives these market dues, which
-amount to one-tenth of the produce sold, and as the produce offered
-for sale comprises animals, fish, eggs, salt, sweet potatoes, peas,
-beans, pottery, tobacco, axes, hoes, and rope, the amount of money due
-to royalty must be very great. At the end of a busy market day many
-boys are ready to clean up the market-place, in reward for which they
-get scraps of meat from the slaughter-house, a few coffee berries, or
-a little salt. Money consists of cowrie shells, two hundred of which
-are needed to buy a large earthenware pot; five to ten are given for a
-tobacco pipe; and in striking such bargains as these the busy marketing
-day soon draws to a close.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII<br />
-<span class="smcap small">Social Life of the Baganda</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>A traveller among the Baganda tribe may soon learn that the people are
-divided into groups or clans, each of which regards some animal as its
-particular badge or emblem. An arrangement of this kind is not peculiar
-to the Baganda, or even to African natives. Indians of North America,
-Australian natives, and most tribes of the South Sea Islands have a
-similar grouping of the members in clans or “totems,” each having a
-plant or animal which is treated with great respect.</p>
-
-<p>There are a great many rules that members of the clan have to observe.
-For instance, among the natives of the “Leopard” clan no one may eat
-meat which has been torn, so that any animal killed or injured by
-a wild beast must be sold to some other clan. The “Leopards” were
-extremely important people, because from them the king and members of
-the royal family were chosen. In addition to the “Leopards,” there are
-people who call themselves “Lions,” “Otters,” “Elephants,” and even
-“Grasshoppers” and “Mushrooms.” Usually there is a story or tradition
-which is supposed to account for the beginning of this strange<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span>
-arrangement. People of the “Lion” clan say that soon after King Kintu
-came to his throne, many, many years ago, he went out to hunt a lion
-and an eagle. When the lion skin was dressed, King Kintu stood upon it
-and announced to his people that, in future, the lion was to be their
-sacred emblem, and although peoples of other clans might hunt the
-creature, members of the “Lion” group were never to take the life of
-their sacred animal. Three animals, the lion, leopard, and eagle, are
-all regarded as the special property of kings, who alone are permitted
-to use the skins.</p>
-
-<p class="center p0 p2"><span class="figcenter" id="img016">
- <img src="images/016.jpg" class="w50" alt="A Baganda Man" />
-</span></p>
-<p class="center p0 caption"><span class="smcap">A Baganda Man.</span></p>
-
-
-<p>The Baganda are a very warlike people, who have constantly increased
-their territory at the expense of neighbours, with whom they have at
-all times been ready to quarrel. At times the king would lead his army
-in person, or again the task might be given to generals, who were
-always elaborately dressed in skins of animals. No mercy was shown to
-a defeated people, who were, of course, despoiled of everything worth
-possessing, and a great deal of the booty was claimed by the king<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span>
-of the victorious people. <abbr title="mister">Mr.</abbr> Roscoe says: “After the spoil had been
-divided, the general gave the order to the chiefs to disband their men
-and let them go home. The important chiefs accompanied the general to
-the capital to report to the king before they were allowed to visit
-their homes; but if there had been a reverse, they, too, went to their
-country residences for some ten days before visiting the king. People
-lined the roads to welcome the army; women ran to meet their husbands
-with gourds of water, took from them their weapons, and were proud to
-carry these as they marched along the crowded roads. Warriors dashed
-at imaginary foes, drums were beaten, fifes were played, and songs of
-victory were sung.”</p>
-
-<p>In times of peace the Baganda amuse themselves by relating interesting
-stories, a few of which are given in the following pages.</p>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_VIII">CHAPTER VIII<br />
-<span class="smcap small">Stories told by the Baganda</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>At one time cats were servants of fowls, to whom they had to pay
-tribute in the form of flying ants, done up in small packets. This duty
-became very irksome, and on several occasions the cats were very much
-inclined to rebel, but were afraid to do so when the fowls threatened
-to burn them with their red combs. At one time, when the cats’ fire had
-gone out a mother cat sent her young one to make fire by placing some
-dry grass near to the red comb of an old rooster who was very drunk and
-fast asleep.</p>
-
-<p>Presently the kitten returned with the report that he could not get
-a light from the red comb of the sleeping cock. This aroused the
-curiosity of the mother cat, and at once she went and convinced herself
-that the cock’s comb, though red, was quite cold. She then wakened the
-rooster, and along with other cats declared that never again would
-she serve the fowls. The fowls saw that their deception was no longer
-of any use, so they came to the nearest village and asked man for his
-protection against the cats.</p>
-
-<p>A lion and a crocodile had a quarrel during which each claimed to
-be the stronger animal.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span> The former said: “I can kill the fiercest
-buffalo,” to which the latter replied: “And I can kill the hippopotamus
-in the water.” The crocodile was basking on the mud near to the
-river’s bank where the lion was devouring a buffalo. Very quickly the
-crocodile seized the leg of the buffalo and pulled both that creature
-and the lion into the river, where they were drowned. This incident
-filled the crocodile with confidence, so that he soon began to boast of
-his strength, especially to the young son of the lion he had killed.
-Naturally the young lion was very angry, and ever in search of revenge,
-which he took one day when the crocodile attempted to play his old
-trick of pulling the young lion and his prey into the river. On this
-occasion the lion proved stronger, for not only did he haul out the
-crocodile on to the mud flats, but quickly settled him with blows from
-his powerful paws. Now the Baganda people declare that the lion and the
-crocodile are of equal strength, the former being king of beasts on
-land, and the latter sovereign of the river.</p>
-
-<p>Now we come to the closing scenes in the life of this interesting
-Baganda tribe. Sickness is never put down to natural causes, such as
-chills, overeating, or heavy drinking. It is always supposed that an
-enemy has worked magic against the sick man, and the medicine man
-of the tribe will usually bleed the patient in order to let out the
-evil magic. The body of the king is embalmed and buried with great
-reverence, and even for the most humble people there is respectful
-interment; methods which are very different from those adopted by the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span>
-Masai and Akikuyu, who leave their dead to be devoured by hyenas.</p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<h2>BOOKS FOR SCHOOL REFERENCE LIBRARY</h2>
-
-<ul class="index">
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Britain across the Seas</em>, by Sir <span class="smcap">H. Johnston</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>British Central Africa</em>, by <span class="smcap">A. Werner</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>The Baganda</em>, by the <abbr title="reverend">Rev.</abbr> <span class="smcap">J. Roscoe</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>With a Pre-Historic People</em>, by <span class="smcap">W. Scoresby Routledge</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>The Masai</em>, by <span class="smcap">A. C. Hollis</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>The Nandi</em>, by <span class="smcap">A. C. Hollis</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Tribes of Northern and Central Kordofan</em>, by <span class="smcap">H. A. MacMichael</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Northern Bantu</em>, by the <abbr title="reverend">Rev.</abbr> <span class="smcap">J. Roscoe</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan.</em></li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Last of the Masai</em>, by <span class="smcap">Sidney Langford Hinde</span>.</li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>British Museum Guide Book to the Ethnographical Collections.</em></li>
-<li class="ifrst"><em>Shilluk People</em>, by <span class="smcap">Westermann</span>.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter transnote">
-<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
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-<p>In a few cases, obvious omissions or errors in punctuation have been
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