CH. i] MOMBASA 7 



We were welcomed to Government House in most 

 cordial fashion by the acting Governor, Lieutenant- 

 Governor .Jackson, who is not only a trained public 

 official of long experience, but a first-class field-naturalist 

 and a renowned big-game hunter ; indeed, I could not 

 too warmly express my appreciation of the hearty and 

 generous courtesy with which we were received and 

 treated, alike by the official and the unofficial world, 

 throughout East Africa. We landed in the kind of 

 torrential downpour that only comes in the tropics ; it 

 reminded me of Panama at certain moments in the 

 rainy season. That night we were given a dinner by 

 the Mombasa Club, and it was interesting to meet the 

 n"»erchants and planters of the town and the neighbour- 

 hood as well as the officials. The former included not 

 only Englishmen, but also Germans and Italians, 

 which is quite as it should be, for at least part of the 

 high inland region of British East Africa can be made 

 one kind of " wliite man's country," and to achieve 

 tliis white men should work heartily together, doing 

 scrupulous justice to the natives, but remembering that 

 progress and development in tliis particular kind of new 

 land depend exclusively upon the masterful leadership 

 of the whites, and that therefore it is both a calamity 

 and a crime to permit the whites to be riven in sunder 

 by hatreds and jealousies. The coast regions of British 

 East ^Vfrica . are not suited for extensive white settle- 

 ment ; but the hinterland is, and there everything 

 should be done to encourage such settlement. Non- 

 white aliens should not be encouraged to settle where 

 they come into rivalry with the whites (exception being 

 made as regards certain particular individuals and certain 

 particular occupations). 



There are, of course, large regions on the coast and in 



