ABSTRACT
In the days of my boyhood, when I lived in the Kikuyu Reserve, thieving was to all intents and purposes unknown, either from fellow Kikuyu or from members of other tribes or races, if they were living in the country as accepted neighbours. Raiding the Masai for cattle, sheep, and goats was not accounted as stealing. It was an act of war against the traditional enemy (except at such times as there was a state of peace between the two tribes) and was in quite a different category.
