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chief whom they could induce to consent to that process, 

 and that therefore the cash bonus, though no doubt 

 acceptable, would in reality effect no educational 

 purpose. Secondly, that unless the Missions would 

 consent not to proselytise the said youths, which 

 consent they indignantly and not unnaturally refused, 

 it would hardly lead to peace to impose with the aid 

 of public money a denominational conflict on the 

 unfortunate savage. Thirdly, that, perhaps in- 

 evitably but most unfortunately, the Mission-educated 

 native does not bear a good name either among 

 his fellow natives or among Europeans. It is, 

 alas! a very generally accepted fact that one should 

 beware of Mission servants, who almost invariably 

 lie, drink, and steal. These arguments won the 

 day and the education of future chiefs was not, 

 generally speaking, entrusted to State - supported 

 Missions. If an opinion may be ventured from an 

 outside view, it is that for the present we might con- 

 fine the main portion of our energies and our cash to 

 giving the native the chance of a technical education. 

 When funds permit, the formation of a school in 

 Nairobi for the sons of chiefs would no doubt be an 

 excellent idea. As in India, the opportunity of send- 

 ing the future chief to such an institution would very 

 shortly prove one of the most coveted privileges of 

 each native ruler, and the boys trained therein would 

 be, not a source of weakness, but of strength and 

 loyalty. 



The supply of teachers, especially of the lower grades, 

 is rather limited. This difficulty is complicated by the 

 supposed necessity of a six months' holiday after thirty 

 months' service. This implies the necessity of the re- 

 tention of a considerably larger staff than would be 



