Far away over to our right, appearing and disappearing as I watched them, were a number of tiny black dots in sort of wide half-moon formation, and a larger number of rather larger dots contained within the semicircle.
"Cattle!" exploded Brown.
"And men!" added Will.
"Black men!" said I."Black men with spears!" "Masai!" said Kazimoto excitedly.

He had far the keenest eyes of all of us.
We were silent for several minutes.

The veriest stranger in that land knows about the feats and bravery of the Masai, who alone of all tribes did not fear the Arabs, and who terrorized a quarter of a continent before the British came and broke their power.
"Mbaia cabisa!" muttered Kazimoto, meaning that the development was very bad indeed.

And he had right to know.
He explained it was a raid.

The Masai, in accordance with time-honored custom, had come from British East to raid the lake-shore villages of German territory, and were driving back the plundered cattle.