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but a first-class field naturalist and a renowned big-game 

 hunter; indeed I could not too warmly express my appre- 

 ciation of the hearty and generous courtesy with which we 

 were received and treated alike by the official and the un- 

 official 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 Mom- 

 basa Club; and it was interesting to meet the merchants 

 and planters of the town and the neighborhood 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 "white man's country"; 

 and to achieve this white men should work heartily to- 

 gether, doing scrupulous justice to the natives, but remem- 

 bering that progress and development in this particular kind 

 of new land depend exclusively upon the masterful leader- 

 ship 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 

 Africa are not suited for extensive white settlement; but the 

 hinterland is, and there everything should be done to en- 

 courage 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 

 the interior where ordinary white settlers cannot live, in 

 which it would be wise to settle immigrants from India, and 

 there are many positions in other regions which it is to the 



