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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