38 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



" Is any reserve designed to preserve carnivora 

 alone ? " 



However, to resume. In 1904 Sir Charles Eliot was 

 banished and Sir Donald Stewart installed in his 

 stead. According to the instructions he had received 

 the latter reported that the only policy was to 

 sequestrate the Masai in an enormous Reserve, and a 

 treaty to effect this object was entered into on August 

 9th, 1904. In this treaty the Masai was divided into 

 two sections — as far as possible in accordance with 

 their own clans and subdivisions — and these two 

 sections were interned in two areas, known as the 

 Northern and Southern Masai Reserves. The 

 Southern Reserve is a district lying between the Ngong 

 mountains and the German boundary. The Northern 

 Reserve was to be an area on Likipia, North of the 

 Guaso Narok, and was carefully defined. This treaty 

 was drawn up with due solemnity. If the Masai had any 

 idea of what they were signing, certainly the Govern- 

 ment had not. Great point and stress were laid on 

 the words that the treaty should hold "for all time." 

 As a matter of fact, it actually held for less than six 

 months, when the Government, finding somewhat late 

 in the day that there was no water in the Northern 

 Reserve, had to delineate fresh boundaries. Further- 

 more, it has been broken by one side or the other 

 ever since. The Masai, on the one hand, have never 

 made any attempt to keep within their Reserve, while 

 we, on our side, very promptly alienated the road, 

 which, half a mile in width, was to communicate 

 between the two Reserves. 



The easier course thus decided on, the Masai moved 

 into their two Reserves and for a time all went com- 

 paratively peacefully. True, the Masai never made 



