viii PREFACE 



use to travellers and residents in East Africa, by indicating the 

 nature of the problems on which information is desired, and by 

 suggesting lines of observation and research. 



This part of the book is entitled " Eastern British East 

 Africa," as attention is almost entirely confined to the part of 

 the protectorate along, and to the east of, the Great Rift 

 Valley. This area has been greatly neglected in comparison 

 with the country to the west, which has been repeatedly 

 described since it was first reached by Speke and Grant from 

 the south, and by Baker from the north. The literature of the 

 Victoria Nyanza basin (including Uganda) is voluminous, while 

 that of the plateau region between it and the sea is scanty. 

 References to most of the works upon it will be found in the 

 text,^ but it may be as well here to mention a few of the 

 most generally accessible authorities. The principal accounts of 

 exploration in this district are Krapf's Travels in East Africa 

 (i860), Thomson's Through Masai Land (1885), and von 

 Hohnel's Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie (1892, 

 English ed. 1894). Lugard's Rise of our East African Empire 

 (1893), though dealing mainly with Nyasaland and Uganda, is 

 indispensable to all students of this country, and gives the best 

 account of its actual politics ; while M'Dermott's British East 

 Africa, and the Blue-books on the Uganda Railway, give its 

 documentary politics. Ravenstein's twelve-sheet map is a 

 complete compilation of all information available at the date of 

 its publication (1889). The history of the growth of British 

 influence in this region is told with masterly clearness and 

 terseness in Y>.&\\\€'s, Partition of Africa {i^g'^ and 1895). For 

 comparison of Kenya with Kilima Njaro, the other snow-clad 

 peak of East Africa, reference may be made to Hans Meyer's 

 Across East African Glaciers (English translation, 1891). 



1 See especially pp. 7-9, 214, 280, 316. 



