Reread the last sentence, and explain it in your own words.
2. The Nuer word for "thousand” means "lost in the forest,"
because that's where your cattle would be if you had that
many of them. Almost no one does, howeverin no small
part because Dinka and Nuer have been stealing cattle from
each other for as long as anyone can remember. Cattle raiding
is an old tradition of pastoralists [farmers] throughout East
Africa, as normal as a neighbor striking at the intruders he
sees hogging prime grazing land.