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Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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gh at some places rough,rocky ground is also found; the rough placesare sometimes covered with a growth offorest and jungle. The level ground in cer-tain parts has groves of trees also, but gen-erally the only growth of trees found awayfrom the hills are mimosa. These grow inlittle clumps and groves, seldom coveringmore than four or five acres. Their lowflat tops forms a fine shady place for cattleand game to rest, and that they take advan- four or five hundred miles to rob a neighborof his cattle. The rapidity of their movements is oneof their strong points, as they will travelall night and attack a village in the earlymorning when the unsuspecting people arenot aware of a hostile band being within ahundred miles of them. During his warrior career a man mustaccumulate cattle or sheep enough to startbusiness with when his term expires. Thisis the fiercest bone of contention between theEnglish and Masai, for the warrior says, IfI can not raid my neighbors, how am I to 190 WESTERN FIELD
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MASAI CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS. get cattle to start with? His reasoningreally is all right from his standpoint, for asa warrior he can get nothing only by raiding,as it is beneath their dignity to trade or bar-ter only in weapons; so it can readily beseen there is trouble and hard times aheadfor the Pastoral Masai. In business they must not cheat a fellow-tribesman, but a stranger may be cheated ifpossible; as traders, however, the Masai areapoor proposition, for they have very littleto dispose of except their livestock and thisthey will not part with if possible to avoiddoing so, for disaster would speedily overtakethem according to their belief. A few tusks of ivory is their only commer-cial article, and even these are stolen fromtheir half cousins, the Anderobo. As raidersthey can not be beaten for their bravery, cool-ness and cunning and their cheek placesthem far above most negroes. The Masai man is not an imposing ap-pearing fellow, but rather a genial good-looking person for a dark

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