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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
one which is yearly being remedied by the exertions 
of the Government. 
No account of any country, however new and small 
that country may be, can hope to be complete. 
Even if every expert were gathered together for 
the purpose, they would then only look at each 
subject from a partial point of view. Moreover, 
when their work was done it would be already 
hopelessly behind the times ; and that is so more 
particularly in a country which is changing and 
growing with such rapidity as our subject. Herein 
no attempt is made to deal in any but the most 
superficial manner with a few aspects of the 
Protectorate. If there is any aim at all beyond the 
pleasure of writing about a land held in most 
affectionate remembrance, it is to supply an answer 
to the more general questions of the ignorant would- 
be settler, and to give him an idea of what he may 
find, and how he may find it. One thing can be 
confidently stated : that is, that any newcomer 
possessed of energy and determination and the 
requisite amount of capital will make a decent living 
and may, I think he will, do more. One other thing 
also may be stated with absolute assurance : that is, 
that no one who comes out will fail to love the land of 
his adoption, or be his luck bad or good, his success 
small, moderate or great, will regret the step that 
he took, or the day he landed in Mombasa. 
Of late the possibility of an amalgamation between 
the Protectorate of British East Africa and Uganda 
has been mooted, and in 1910, as a preliminary step, 
Sir Percy Girouard went up to Uganda to report on 
the advisability or otherwise of the change. Doubt¬ 
less there are both advantages and disadvantages in 
