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Boers from South ^Vfrica and a number of English 

 Africanders had come in, and no better pioneers exist 

 to-day than tliese South ^Vfricans, both Dutch and 

 En<>']ish. Both are so good that I earnestly hope tliey 

 will become indissolubly welded into one people, and 

 the Dutch Boer has the supreme merit of preferring the 

 coimtry to the town and of bringing liis wife and children 

 — plenty of children — with him to settle on the land. 

 The home-maker is tlie only type of settler of perma- 

 nent value, and the cool, healthy, fertile IJasin Gishu 

 i-egion is an ideal land for the right kind of pioneer 

 home-maker, whether he hopes to make his living by 

 raising stock or by growing crops. 



At Sergoi Lake there is a store kept by Mr. Kirke, a 

 Soutli African of Scottish blood. VVitli a kind courtesy 

 which I cannot too highly appreciate, he, with the 

 equally cordial lielp of another settler, Mr. Skally — also 

 a Soutli African, but of Irish birth — and of the District 

 Connnissioner, Mv. Corbett, had arranged for a party of 

 Nandi warriors to come over and show me how they 

 hunted the lion. Two Dutch farmers (Boers) from the 

 neigiibourhood liad also come : they were Messrs. 

 Mouton and Jordaan, fine fellows both, the former 

 liaving served with De ^Vet during the war. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Corbett— who were hospitality itself — had also 

 come to see the sport, and so had Captain Chapman, an 

 English army officer who was taking a rest after several 

 years' service in Northern Nigeria. 



The Nandi are a warlike pastoral tribe, close kin to 

 the Masai in blood and tongue, in weapons and in 

 manner of life. They have long been accustomed to 

 kill with the spear lions which become man-eaters or 

 which molest their cattle overmuch ; and the peace 

 which British rule has imposed upon them — a peace so 



