106 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



The agricultural portion of the Protectorate may be 

 divided into the temperate and tropical parts, the former 

 consisting of the bracing and breezy Highlands, the 

 latter of the fertile but unhealthy — that is, comparatively 

 speaking — areas along the shores of the great lake, 

 along the coast and on the banks of the Tana and Juba 

 rivers. With the latter, want of knowledge and want 

 of time will prevent our dealing. Suffice it to say 

 that much of such land will compare in fertility with 

 any part of the globe, that over a considerable pro- 

 portion of it labour is reasonably plentiful, reason- 

 ably good, and reasonably cheap, and that for a 

 planting country the conditions of health are dis- 

 tinctly favourable. Should a settler have any spare 

 cash to invest outside the work under his immediate 

 control he might do worse than invest it in some 

 rubber, cotton, or perhaps preferably cocoanut planta- 

 tion. He will be able to pay periodic visits from his 

 healthy home and see that operations are being 

 honestly and methodically carried out. Undeniably a 

 fortune can be made, or lost, quicker in plantation 

 produce than in more temperate crops. 



In the Highlands, which may be said, in the 

 roughest and broadest sense, to comprise all land 

 above an elevation of 4,000 ft, farming prospects may 

 be divided into those of livestock and of agriculture ; 

 and the latter may again be subdivided into those 

 of seasonal and permanent crops. Into which the 

 intending settler had best be advised to enter depends 

 on his inclination and knowledge, on the amount of 

 capital that he has available, and in what area he finds 

 it practicable or possible to get land. 



The more important and proved lines that the 

 Highlands afford are: 



