8 
A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
Those men who have this hope and look with every 
confidence to an ideal which they are sparing no pains 
to bring about, have one weak point in their pro¬ 
gramme. The healthy Highlands form, in their full 
extent, but a portion of the Protectorate. Even that 
full extent is curtailed by forest, native, and game 
reserves. The white settlers have task enough as it is 
if from the small area at their disposal they can hope 
to leaven the whole mass. What chance they have 
will be reduced to a minimum if to this mass be added 
the native kingdoms of Uganda, with their teeming 
population and all the other areas absolutely unsuitable 
to white settlement. It is admitted, to be sure, that 
certain areas in Uganda may support Europeans, but 
it cannot be denied that the balance is overwhelmingly 
in the other scale. To take up the burden of sleeping 
sickness alone would be to shoulder a load which, for 
many years, must be beyond our strength. 
From the point of view of the present administration 
there may be advantages. Doubtless a strong case could 
be made by anyone wishing to make it. A strong case 
can always be produced to justify any change. There 
are those, however, who think that at the present day 
the authorities of each Protectorate have cut off fully 
as much as they can chew. In our Protectorate alone 
their mouths are fairly full. Capital is driven from the 
coast by defective and uncertain title, settlers are kept 
out of the Highlands owing to lack of surveyors to 
survey farms, and lack of a definite policy on which to 
allot them when surveyed, and forest and soil of all 
kind is clamouring to be unlocked for the benefit of 
settlers in particular, and the British Empire in general. 
It is probable that readers of this book may 
gather the impression that, other things being equal, 
