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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
“ Is any reserve designed to preserve carnivora 
alone ? ” 
However, to resume. In 1904 Sir Charles Eliot was 
banished and Sir Donald Stewart installed in his 
stead. According to the instructions he had received 
the latter reported that the only policy was to 
sequestrate the Masai in an enormous Reserve, and a 
treaty to effect this object was entered into on August 
9th, 1904. In this treaty the Masai was divided into 
two sections—as far as possible in accordance with 
their own clans and subdivisions—and these two 
sections were interned in two areas, known as the 
Northern and Southern Masai Reserves. The 
Southern Reserve is a district lying between the Ngong 
mountains and the German boundary. The Northern 
Reserve was to be an area on Likipia, North of the 
Guaso Narok, and was carefully defined. This treaty 
was drawn up with due solemnity. If the Masai had any 
idea of what they were signing, certainly the Govern¬ 
ment had not. Great point and stress were laid on 
the words that the treaty should hold “for all time.” 
As a matter of fact, it actually held for less than six 
months, when the Government, finding somewhat late 
in the day that there was no water in the Northern 
Reserve, had to delineate fresh boundaries. Further¬ 
more, it has been broken by one side or the other 
ever since. The Masai, on the one hand, have never 
made any attempt to keep within their Reserve, while 
we, on our side, very promptly alienated the road, 
which, half a mile in width, was to communicate 
between the two Reserves. 
The easier course thus decided on, the Masai moved 
into their two Reserves and for a time all went com¬ 
paratively peacefully. True, the Masai never made 
