The Last of the Masai

"Most of my information about these Masai comes from captain Sidney Langford Hinde the famous explorer and lion hunter...he lived with the Masai...and made a study of them." -El Paso Herald, Feb. 29, 1908 "The Masai are singularly fair fighting men, depending rather upon the unconquerable valour of each individual warrior than upon overwhelming their foes by mere force of numbers." - The Saturday Review In 1895 the Imperial Government took over the administration of British East Africa; the company ceased to exist, and subsequently Sidney Langford Hinde (1863 - 1930) became Resident and Collector of Masailand. He had many opportunities of obtaining information concerning this unique and interesting people, and, assisted by Mrs. Hinde, has embodied the results of his gleanings in the present volume. In doing so the authors have undoubtedly rendered service to physiologists and to students of Africa and its development, who will find much to interest them in this book 1901 book "The last of the Masai." The Masai are singularly fair fighting men, depending rather upon the unconquerable valour of each individual warrior than upon overwhelming their foes by mere force of numbers. In their old raiding days, when they swept vast districts, earring off thousands of head of cattle in a single foray, "they never went more than a hundred strong and usually numbered only thirty, forty, or fifty. This small force of warriors was sufficient to fight and defeat the superior numbers of other natives". The prestige of the Masai as a fighting race must have been great indeed. These strange people have various chivalrous attributes, which distinguish them from all other Africans. They invariably send notice to their adversaries that they are about to attack them; they spare their…