CHAPTER IX 



HINTS FOR A WOMAN IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



By Lady Cran worth 



The woman who makes up her mind that she will 

 share the life of a settler in East Africa will still have 

 many vicissitudes to face. Danger is no longer one of 

 them, and discomfort, though at first one cannot fail to 

 feel the altered conditions, is not nowadays a very 

 serious item. It is the third D, however, dullness, 

 that causes the chief worry to newcomers, or rather I 

 would say to newcomers who have not resources in 

 themselves. Nearly every settler is a busy man, and 

 if, as is almost certain, he is farming, planting, or 

 developing property, in some form or another, his 

 whole day is occupied, and when he is not working, he 

 is planning the next step to prosperity. This absorption 

 in his pursuits is, I am told, a feature of all Colonial 

 life, and is in itself a proof of the prosperity of that 

 life. In East Africa one is lucky in that there are 

 work and interests ready to hand, in which not only 

 can the woman share, but which, as a rule, she can do 

 much better than her menkind. Among such pursuits 

 are cooking, washing, poultry-farming, gardening, 

 household pursuits, and, in modern days, the care of 

 the stables. There are also many matters on the farm 



