PREFACE 
In producing this small work I am not unmindful 
of the vast stream of literature that has issued from 
and flowed about the small Protectorate of British 
East Africa. I am, however, induced to add one more 
drop to this volume by the reflection that the great 
proportion of that stream is tinged by, if indeed not 
mainly composed of, the blood of slain animals, and 
that there is not very much recent matter which will 
afford information, even of the roughest kind, as to the 
life and opportunities which will await the intending 
Settler. 
This, then, is my hope ; that some slight idea may be 
obtained herein of the climate, of the sport, of the 
possibilities of gain and recreation in the Highlands of 
East Africa. 
For many years an ever-increasing body of men, at 
whose head stands Lord Delamere, have been striving 
to prove to a sceptical and very faintly interested 
public that these Highlands of the Protectorate offer 
the chance of the addition of yet another Colony, small 
but eminently prosperous, to the Empire. The last 
year or two has shown that their efforts and sacrifice 
have not been made in vain. 
I hope that my readers will bear in mind two points— 
