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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
This splendid liberality of choice accounts for the great 
diversity of the native tribes ; and as if this were not 
sufficient, civilisation has added thereto the European, 
the Indian, the Arab, and the Boer. 
For purposes of convenience I propose to divide 
the population into : 
A. Native tribes. 
B. Europeans. 
C. A polyglot group comprising : 
Indians, 
Swahilis, 
Arabs, 
Somalis, 
and to deal very briefly with a section of each class. 
We will commence with the original inhabitants, 
and in doing so I shall try to encroach as little as 
possible on the sphere of Anthropology, but rather to 
deal with them from the point of view of their contact 
with the settler, and more especially with regard to 
the ever present labour question. This being so, it 
will be necessary to confine our attention entirely to 
those which inhabit or adjoin the settled areas of the 
Highlands, and which form almost the entire labour 
supply, not only for those Highlands, but for the whole 
Protectorate. At present the coast natives, who 
number some 500,000, do very little work on 
European plantations, these plantations being de¬ 
pendent on the supplies they draw from the Highlands. 
The Highlands and Nyanza Basin are divided into 
four Provinces : The Nyanza Province, The Naivasha 
Province, The Kenia Province and The Ukamba 
Province. 
