[2] El moran = the “young men,” i.e. Masai warriors.
[3] Dr. Richard Kandt, Caput Nili. (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.)
[4] I gave the skull of this specimen to the Berlin Natural History Museum.
[5] As late as the year 1859 the Masai warriors menaced the places on the coast between Tanga and Mombassa! Even in the eighties the explorers Thomson and Fischer had to submit to their demands. To that flourishing period of the Masai belongs the origin of their view that even if the Bantu Negro races have cattle, they must have been stolen from the Masai, for, as say, “God gave us in earlier days all the cattle on the face of the earth.”
[6] According to Hollis, the singular of the word is “O-‘l-leleshwa.”
[7] As Hollis tells us.
[8] The pachyderms seem to feel no ill effects from the natron-bearing water; but for men the water of the lake—at least, near my camp—proved very unpleasant. Our drinking water was obtained from a small marsh near the shore of the lake.
[9] John Hanning Speke, one of the discoverers of the Victoria Nyanza, has already remarked that the Arabs know well how to manage their slaves, and to tame them like domestic animals; that they are able to entrust them with business matters, and send them out of their own dominions into foreign countries, without the slaves ever attempting to escape from their masters.
[10] The native elephant-hunter—the “Wakua”—use as a rule several small iron bullets with a heavy charge of gunpowder.
[11] Singular: en-dito = the young maiden.