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Wild life

White-knuckle ride

15 May 2010

10:00 AM

15 May 2010

10:00 AM

Rainy Season on the Cattle Stock Route

From the side of the track, a Samburu youth waved me down. I stopped the vehicle. He was gorgeously dressed for market day: all feathers, beads, disks of aluminium, with ochre on his head and bare shoulders. He wore in his beaded belt a stabbing sword in a leather scabbard.

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