A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAPTER I 
INTRODUCTORY 
Less than a generation ago East Africa was not even 
a name. Twelve years since, even, the Protectorate 
was held generally to be some sort of an appendage of 
South Africa to which portion of the continent indeed 
letters were generally addressed. Halve this period 
and it took a more definite shape: “ British East 
Africa, Mombasa and Nairobi ? You know, the place 
where they have a railway and shoot big game ! ” At 
the present time the answer given in a general know¬ 
ledge Paper might be : “ The British East African 
Protectorate is a huge tract of healthy highlands 
extending from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza. 
It is kept as a game reserve for lions and such-like, 
which millionaires and Americans get shot for them, 
and write about afterwards. There are some settlers 
who stone their Governors and shoot natives.” Even 
such a concise answer would not be wholly correct. 
British East Africa forms in some respects the most 
peculiar of his Majesty’s Dominions in that within so 
comparatively small an area it embraces so much 
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