48 IN AFRICA 



can read the Chicago Tribune of August thirty- 

 first. 



At present the chief revenue of the government 

 is derived from shooting parties, and the officials 

 are doing all they can to encourage the coming of 

 sportsmen. Each man who comes to shoot must pay 

 two hundred and fifty dollars for his license as 

 well as employ at least thirty natives for his trans- 

 port. He must buy supplies, pay ten per cent, 

 import and export tax, and in many other ways 

 spend money which goes toward paying the 

 expenses of government. The government also 

 is encouraging various agricultural and stock rais- 

 ing experiments, but these have not yet passed the 

 experimental stage. Almost anything may be 

 grown in British East Africa, but before agricul- 

 ture can.be made to pay the vast herds of wild game 

 must either be exterminated or driven away. No 

 fence will keep out a herd of zebra, and in one rush 

 a field of grain is ruined by these giant herds. Ex- 

 periments have failed satisfactorily to domesticate 

 the zebra, and so he remains a menace to agriculture 

 and a nuisance in all respects except as adding a 

 picturesque note to the landscape. 



Colonel Roosevelt, in a recent speech in Nairobi, 

 spoke of British East Africa as a land of enormous 

 possibilities and promise, but in talks with many 

 men here I found that little money has been made 

 by those who have gone into agriculture in a large 

 way. Drought and predatory herds of game have 

 introduced an element of uncertainty which has 



