CHAPTER III 
RACES AND CLASSES 
For a really heterogeneous population the Protector¬ 
ate of British East Africa is hard to beat. 
The great diversity of climate provided by Nature 
is responsible in the first place for this. In an area of 
considerably less than a quarter of a million square 
miles she can produce in one part or another a sample 
of any kind of day or weather that you may want. 
Do you desire the temperature to be warm and 
moist withal ? On the coast or on the shores of the 
Great Lake we can provide you with it. If a dry 
heat is wanted, we have the very finest samples. 
Indeed, if you will cross the North Guaso Nyero, I 
doubt whether our dry heat can be surpassed. 
A perfect balmy climate? Take Nairobi and 
Kyambu. Something a little more bracing and with a 
touch of frost ? Try Likipia or the Uasin Guishu 
plateau. Would you have a reminder of the West 
coast of Scotland with heavy rain, mist and lovely 
days interspersed ? The Mau or the Nandi 
Escarpment will give it you. A touch of the wind off 
the North Sea in East Anglia ? The West Kenia 
plains can do that. While for something really cold 
and bitter you must climb up into Kenia’s glaciers. 
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