6 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



one which is yearly being remedied by the exertions 

 of the Government. 



No account of any country, however new and small 

 that country may be, can hope to be complete. 

 Even if every expert were gathered together for 

 the purpose, they would then only look at each 

 subject from a partial point of view. Moreover, 

 when their work was done it would be already 

 hopelessly behind the times ; and that is so more 

 particularly in a country which is changing and 

 growing with such rapidity as our subject. Herein 

 no attempt is made to deal in any but the most 

 superficial manner with a few aspects of the 

 Protectorate. If there is any aim at all beyond the 

 pleasure of writing about a land held in most 

 affectionate remembrance, it is to supply an answer 

 to the more general questions of the ignorant would- 

 be settler, and to give him an idea of what he may 

 find, and how he may find it. One thing can be 

 confidently stated : that is, that any newcomer 

 possessed of energy and determination and the 

 requisite amount of capital will make a decent living 

 and may, I think he will, do more. One other thing 

 also may be stated with absolute assurance : that is, 

 that no one who comes out will fail to love the land of 

 his adoption, or be his luck bad or good, his success 

 small, moderate or great, will regret the step that 

 he took, or the day he landed in Mombasa. 



Of late the possibility of an amalgamation between 

 the Protectorate of British East Africa and Uganda 

 has been mooted, and in 1 910, as a preliminary step, 

 Sir Percy Girouard went up to Uganda to report on 

 the advisability or otherwise of the change. Doubt- 

 less there are both advantages and disadvantages in 



