The Wanderobo—Visit from the Wanderobo chief—Native bartering—A grand meeting of surrounding tribes for blood-brotherhood under my auspices—Dancing frenzy—Native ideas of a future life—Again trek for the unknown—Attacked by natives—Chief’s admonition—Decide to visit the Wanderobo chief Olomondo—Wanderobo gluttony—The honey bird—Wanderobo methods of hunting—Massacre of a Goanese safari—My narrow escape—General uprising of hostile tribes—Rise of the Chinga tribes against me—My precarious position—Successful sally and total defeat of the enemy—My blood-brother, the Kikuyu Chieftain, comes to my aid with thousands of armed men—Total extinction of the Chinga people CHAPTER IX 233 My control over the whole country now complete—Get back with my ivory to Karuri’s—Recover all the property of the murdered Goanese—My position recognized by all the chiefs—Violent death of my enemy, the Rainmaker—Peaceful rule—Try to improve the agriculture of the country—Imitators of my schemes cause trouble in the country—Troubles of a ruler—Outbreak of smallpox—Famine—My attempts at alleviating the distress misunderstood—Daily routine in a native village—"Sin vomiting"—Native customs—Native hospitality among themselves—Adventures with lions CHAPTER X 279 Government send an expedition into my country to take over the administration—Go with my followers to meet the Government officials—Am asked to disarm my followers by the Government officials, who are in a state of panic—Consent to this to allay their fears, and am then put under arrest—Am charged with “dacoity”- -Am sent down to Mombasa to be tried, and placed in the gaol—Am released on bail—Tried and acquitted—I am appointed intelligence officer and guide to a Government expedition into the Kalyera country CHAPTER XI 295 Origin of the Kikuyu—The family—Circumcision—Marriage—Land tenure—Missionaries INDEX 317 ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN BOYES _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE MASAI WARRIORS FROM NAIVASHA 48 AN ANT-HILL 58 KIKUYU WARRIOR 80 WA-KIKUYU MAIDENS 82 THE RIVER MORANDAT 100 A GROUP OF MASAI WARRIORS 112 A GROUP OF WA-KIKUYU PORTERS AND THE AUTHOR 192 A DEAD RHINO 208 WA-KIKUYU WOMEN POUNDING SUGAR-CANE FOR MAKING 240 NATIVE DRINK