22 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



This splendid liberality of choice accounts for the great 

 diversity of the native tribes ; and as if this were not 

 sufficient, civilisation has added thereto the European, 

 the Indian, the Arab, and the Boer. 



For purposes of convenience I propose to divide 

 the population into : 



A. Native tribes. 



B. Europeans. 



C. A polyglot group comprising : 



Indians, 

 Swahilis, 

 Arabs, 

 Somalis, 



and to deal very briefly with a section of each class. 



We will commence with the original . inhabitants, 

 and in doing so I shall try to encroach as little as 

 possible on the sphere of Anthropology, but rather to 

 deal with them from the point of view of their contact 

 with the settler, and more especially with regard to 

 the ever present labour question. This being so, it 

 will be necessary to confine our attention entirely to 

 those which inhabit or adjoin the settled areas of the 

 Highlands, and which form almost the entire labour 

 supply, not only for those Highlands, but for the whole 

 Protectorate. At present the coast natives, who 

 number some 500,000, do very little work on 

 European plantations, these plantations being de- 

 pendent on the supplies they draw from the Highlands. 



The Highlands and Nyanza Basin are divided into 

 four Provinces : The Nyanza Province, The Naivasha 

 Province, The Kenia Province and The Ukamba 

 Province. 



