THROUGH THE PLEISTOCENE 



The former included not only Englishmen but also Ger- 



mans 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 coun- 



try"; and to achieve 



this white men should 



work heartily together, 



doing scrupulous jus- 



tice to the natives, but 



remembering that 



progress and develop- 



ment in this particular 



kind of new land de- 



pend 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 Settle- 



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ment. 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 



- J- Cuninghame, known to the Swahilis as "Bwana 

 Medivu." the master with the beard 

 From a photograph I'y Edmund f feller- 



