2 
A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
variety ; a variety of climate, a variety of soil, of 
human inhabitant, of flora, of fauna, and finally of 
possibilities for British enterprise. 
It is essential to lay considerable emphasis on the 
restricted size of our country, more especially with 
regard to its possibilities of colonisation. A glance at 
the map reveals the fact that the Protectorate contains 
a great many square miles. It is, in fact, equal in 
size to Great Britain and France taken together. 
The map, however, does not reveal how much of this 
area is in reality excluded. There are the compara¬ 
tively unhealthy regions on the coast and round 
the shores of the Great Lake. There are the 
huge desert tracts. There are also the reserves for 
forest, for native, and for game. In none of these, as 
things stand now, can the white man live and have 
his home ; and if you take them away, the area that is 
left, and the area on which in the main we base our 
hopes, is restricted. Ten million acres will swallow up 
most of it. Ten million acres, even with the fringes 
and additions of debatable land which will some day 
be of a certain economic value, do not constitute a 
large area on which to form a colony. It is absurd to 
think of it as on the same plane as Canada, Australia or 
South Africa. Yet such are the advantages that this 
small area offers, and such are its possibilities, that it 
is not premature to suppose that on it will live a 
population comparatively dense and essentially pros¬ 
perous, forming not the most insignificant portion of 
the British Empire. One thing is fairly certain, and 
that is, that at the present day it offers prospects to a 
certain type of colonist that can be nowhere excelled if 
indeed they can be equalled. 
At present—it is early days yet—the Protectorate 
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