Word: narok
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...dung- walled hut and drank beer with the visitor and explained the work that he did. The laibon, or witch doctor, spoke in a low, murmurous voice in Maa, sucking frequently on an oversize bottle of Tusker, a faintly smoky Kenya beer brought up in the Land Cruiser from Narok. Moses impassively translated...
...time to begin the six-hour drive from Nairobi to Moses' enk'ang (small village) in the Loita Hills. The Land Cruiser travels for three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
Dust was thick on the Kenya plains as touring Queen Mother Elizabeth beamed down at Narok on rows of proud, bellicose Masai warriors, resplendent in lion-skin headdresses. Touching briefly on a local morale problem, Her Majesty expressed the hope that rain would soon fall in Kenya, which had suffered a four-month drought. Hardly had she finished speaking when the rains came-so heavy that roads turned to sludge, and the Queen's car barely made it to the airstrip for her flight to Mombasa. But the Masai, water cascading off their lion skins, trudged happily homewards, more...
...know that we speared a government official two years ago at Narok?' 'Yes, I know it.' 'Are you aware that we could spear your people even today?' 'Yes, I know it and I expected a spear between my ribs yesterday, especially when I was baptizing your young men.' 'What would you have done in such a case?' 'During the service I would have done nothing and would have forgiven those who had speared me.' 'Hm, hm, but afterwards...
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