We didn't know what a Ketosh was, but it sounded more like something in the imperative mood than anything ethnological.

It developed later in the day, however, that a Ketosh is a member of the tribe of that name, and their habitat is on the southern slopes of Elgon.
[Drawing: _Lady and Gentleman Ketosh_] The Ketoshites, or Ketoshians, as the case may be, are a cattle- and sheep-raising tribe.

In other words, a tribe in which the women do all the manual labor while the men folk sit on a hillside with a shield and spear and watch the herds partake of nourishment.

They are the standing army.
[Drawing: _The Standing Army Sat Around All Day_] We followed the man with the spear to a little village hard by.

The village, like all the numerous other ones that we came to in the next few days, was inclosed in a zareba, or wall of tangled thorn branches that encircled the village.