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ABSTRACT PHE Masai (the word should be pronounced with a stress on the first syllable—Másai) were first distinguished and described as an East African people by the missionary Krapf, who,


with Rebmann, was the discoverer of Mounts Kenia and Kilimanjaro. Krapf, who commenced the exploration of equatorial East Africa in 1848, had begun dimly to perceive the re-markable oneness


in language of the Bantu tribes in the southern half of Africa from the Equator to Natal and Cape Colony, and he was therefore puzzled to find in the Masai a race intruding into Bantu East


Africa, which spoke a language absolutely different from the Bantu type. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your


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Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE JOHNSTON, H. _The Masai of East Africa_ 1 . _Nature_ 72, 83–84 (1905).


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