8 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



Those men who have this hope and look with every 

 confidence to an ideal which they are sparing no pains 

 to bring about, have one weak point in their pro- 

 gramme. The healthy Highlands form, in their full 

 extent, but a portion of the Protectorate. Even that 

 full extent is curtailed by forest, native, and game 

 reserves. The white settlers have task enough as it is 

 if from the small area at their disposal they can hope 

 to leaven the whole mass. What chance they have 

 will be reduced to a minimum if to this mass be added 

 the native kingdoms of Uganda, with their teeming 

 population and all the other areas absolutely unsuitable 

 to white settlement. It is admitted, to be sure, that 

 certain areas in Uganda may support Europeans, but 

 it cannot be denied that the balance is overwhelmingly 

 in the other scale. To take up the burden of sleeping 

 sickness alone would be to shoulder a load which, for 

 many years, must be beyond our strength. 



From the point of view of the present administration 

 there may be advantages. Doubtless a strong case could 

 be made by anyone wishing to make it. A strong case 

 can always be produced to justify any change. There 

 are those, however, who think that at the present day 

 the authorities of each Protectorate have cut off fully 

 as much as they can chew. In our Protectorate alone 

 their mouths are fairly full. Capital is driven from the 

 coast by defective and uncertain title, settlers are kept 

 out of the Highlands owing to lack of surveyors to 

 survey farms, and lack of a definite policy on which to 

 allot them when surveyed, and forest and soil of all 

 kind is clamouring to be unlocked for the benefit of 

 settlers in particular, and the British Empire in general. 



It is probable that readers of this book may 

 gather the impression that, other things being equal, 



