338 THE LAND OF THE LION 
time as the development of the great water powers of 
the country enable East Africa to manufacture her own 
raw products, along the great water courses and by the 
coast line. There are millions of acres of such rich land 
lying at present under brush and swamp, superb plan- 
tations they would make, but the cost of reclamation is 
at present prohibitory. 
As I have pointed out in these notes of a traveller, 
there are also many high plateaus where it seems as though 
the white farmer could work all day and where two crops 
a year could be raised. In Queensland, a far hotter 
country, such work is now being carried out very success- 
fully by white men, and in the northern part of the South 
American continent, there are communities of pure-blooded 
Spaniards who in almost the same latitude and in an even 
higher altitude are thriving, and have thriven, for two 
hundred years. 
If colonies of the unemployed could be directed here, 
helped and educated until they succeeded in taking root, 
they would do more to guarantee and perpetuate English 
influence and rule than could any military or governmental 
occupation (as at present thought of) possibly accomplish. 
Lastly it is evident that the Protectorate needs as much 
as anything else, a firm hand at the helm. All within it, 
black and white alike, must obey the law if the Protectorate 
is to prosper. It is obvious if the white man may defy 
or evade law, the black man will be quick to observe it. 
There is an evil tradition in East Africa, that as it is 
a black man’s country, and the whites are but as one in 
a thousand, nothing to lower their prestige can be tolerated. 
A white man cannot do wrong, a white man should not be 
punished, even if he openly defies the law. (An exception, 
and a good one, was made to this rule lately by the Nairobi 
officials; I am glad to say a prominent white man, who 
had defied the law, was sent to prison.) ‘This vicious 
