A COLONY IN THE MAKING 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



Less than a generation ago East Africa was not even 

 a name. Twelve years since, even, the Protectorate 

 was held generally to be some sort of an appendage of 

 South Africa to which portion of the continent indeed 

 letters were generally addressed. Halve this period 

 and it took a more definite shape : " British East 

 Africa, Mombasa and Nairobi ? You know, the place 

 where they have a railway and shoot big game ! " At 

 the present time the answer given in a general know- 

 ledge Paper might be : " The British East African 

 Protectorate is a huge tract of healthy highlands 

 extending from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza. 

 It is kept as a game reserve for lions and such-like, 

 which millionaires and Americans get shot for them, 

 and write about afterwards. There are some settlers 

 who stone their Governors and shoot natives." Even 

 such a concise answer would not be wholly correct. 



British East Africa forms in some respects the most 

 peculiar of his Majesty's Dominions in that within so 

 comparatively small an area it embraces so much 



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