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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
The agricultural portion of the Protectorate may be 
divided into the temperate and tropical parts, the former 
consisting of the bracing and breezy Highlands, the 
latter of the fertile but unhealthy—that is, comparatively 
speaking—areas along the shores of the great lake, 
along the coast and on the banks of the Tana and Juba 
rivers. With the latter, want of knowledge and want 
of time will prevent our dealing. Suffice it to say 
that much of such land will compare in fertility with 
any part of the globe, that over a considerable pro¬ 
portion of it labour is reasonably plentiful, reason¬ 
ably good, and reasonably cheap, and that for a 
planting country the conditions of health are dis¬ 
tinctly favourable. Should a settler have any spare 
cash to invest outside the work under his immediate 
control he might do worse than invest it in some 
rubber, cotton, or perhaps preferably cocoanut planta¬ 
tion. He will be able to pay periodic visits from his 
healthy home and see that operations are being 
honestly and methodically carried out. Undeniably a 
fortune can be made, or lost, quicker in plantation 
produce than in more temperate crops. 
In the Highlands, which may be said, in the 
roughest and broadest sense, to comprise all land 
above an elevation of 4,000 ft., farming prospects may 
be divided into those of livestock and of agriculture ; 
and the latter may again be subdivided into those 
of seasonal and permanent crops. Into which the 
intending settler had best be advised to enter depends 
on his inclination and knowledge, on the amount of 
capital that he has available, and in what area he finds 
it practicable or possible to get land. 
The more important and proved lines that the 
Highlands afford are : 
