PREFACE 



In producing this small work I am not unmindful 

 of the vast stream of literature that has issued from 

 and flowed about the small Protectorate of British 

 East Africa. I am, however, induced to add one more 

 drop to this volume by the reflection that the great 

 proportion of that stream is tinged by, if indeed not 

 mainly composed of, the blood of slain animals, and 

 that there is not very much recent matter which will 

 afford information, even of the roughest kind, as to the 

 life and opportunities which will await the intending 

 Settler. 



This, then, is my hope ; that some slight idea may be 

 obtained herein of the climate, of the sport, of the 

 possibilities of gain and recreation in the Highlands of 

 East Africa. 



For many years an ever-increasing body of men, at 

 whose head stands Lord Delamere, have been striving 

 to prove to a sceptical and very faintly interested 

 public that these Highlands of the Protectorate offer 

 the chance of the addition of yet another Colony, small 

 but eminently prosperous, to the Empire. The last 

 year or two has shown that their efforts and sacrifice 

 have not been made in vain. 



I hope that my readers will bear in mind two points — 



