. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. 870 MA.SAI, TURK.VNA, SIJK, NANDI, ETC. the couch, which is only about three and a half feet high. The furniture of the huts consists more or less of cooking utensils, pots of grain, and the weapons of the

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. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. 870 MA.SAI, TURK.VNA, SIJK, NANDI, ETC. the couch, which is only about three and a half feet high. The furniture of the huts consists more or less of cooking utensils, pots of grain, and the weapons of the occupant, if he be a male. Short round billets of wood are used as pillows at the head of the sleeping places. Small children sleep in the same hut as their parents till they reach the age of five or six years, when a small hut is built for tliem near the parents' dwelling. The huts of the IMutei and Elgeyo people are diilerent in structure from tliose of the Nandi. They excavate a dwelling on the hillside (much as is done by the cave-dwellers of Southern Tunis). The front of this artificial cave- dwelling is filled up with thorn bushes. The Sabei and South Elgon people live a great deal on the produce of. 493. PLAN 01' NANDI INTElilOR their banana crops. The rest of the Nandi peoples are all agriculturists, and cultivate mainly sorghum, eleusine, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and tobacco. The Kamasia were formerly steady cultivators, but of late years their country has been afi^icted again and again with serious droughts, and in many parts of the Kamasia Hills the plantations aie now abandoned, the people taking instead to a pastoral life, or becoming entirely dependent qn hunting for their food. The Andorobo never cultivate, keep no domestic animals, and live entirely by the chase. Their favourite food is the flesh of the colobus monkey, which they obtain from the dense forests on the Nandi Plateau. All the Nandi peoples, except perhaps those of Mount Elgon, are great hunters, an