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good enough for him. He comes here as he has come 
before to other parts of the continent. He comes some- 
times to make a home, and as a home-maker he should be 
and is welcome. Sometimes to make but a short stay and 
then move on, selling his holding which he has done little 
or nothing to improve, and again seeking some wilder land 
where he can live the rough and uncontrolled life he loves. 
Why these immigrant Boers who now are crowding into the 
Protectorate by the ship-load have left the Transvaal 
which is now theirs beyond controversy, none of them 
seems to be able to say; unless the excuse that times are hard 
there counts as valid. 
The wandering Boer is an unmixed nuisance; he openly 
boasts of his hatred of England and all things English, yet 
he very shrewdly avails himself of every loophole that 
the extraordinarily generous provisions of the Protectorate 
allow him. I will quote one concrete illustration of this 
temper of his and of his attitude to the powers that be. 
A sportmans’s licence to kill game in British East 
Africa costs 250 dollars. A settler’s licence 50 dollars. 
In addition to these purchased commissions to kill game 
the law permits a bona fide settler to shoot all game except 
elephant, eland and giraffe, on his own land, and as the 
‘grants of land are as extensive as ten thousand acres and 
often more, a small farm will sometimes extend to four thou- 
sand acres; this privilege is worth a great deal to the newly 
arrived and struggling immigrant. 
Many bona fide English settlers were for long refused 
permission to take out even a 50-dollar or settlers’ licence, 
but were told by the authorities they must take a 250-dollar 
licence if they wished to kill game. It is but the truth to 
say that 50-dollar licences were only granted after con- 
siderable delay, and when positive proof was forthcoming 
that land was taken up and occupied. 
Now just as soon as the Boers began to arrive in any 
