CHAPTER VIII 



SETTLERS AND OFFICIALS 



Up to quite recent times the white population in the 

 Protectorate was divided into two sharply defined 

 camps — settlers and officials. These two classes, 

 while each individually worked earnestly and heartily 

 for the good of the country, had an unfortunate distrust 

 of each other. Now while this sharp distinction, and 

 I fear distrust, between the official and non-official 

 classes seems growing in intensity in England, it is, I 

 would venture to say, a matter for congratulation that 

 it is fast disappearing in our little Protectorate. 



The old unfortunate cleavage was an extremely 

 natural outcome of the almost unnaturally sudden 

 evolution of the country. When the British Govern- 

 ment first took in hand the administration of the 

 interior there was no white population at all, and the 

 idea of white settlement had not even been mooted ; 

 indeed the very suggestion would have been received 

 with ridicule. The original officials were a very fine class 

 of men of the pioneer type. Their pay was never good, 

 and their hardships were very great. They suffered 

 danger and discomfort from wild beasts, from savages, 

 from disease, and through the agency of one or the 



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