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will get during that season 150,000 rupees’ worth of 
labour, neither more nor less. As time goes on the 
native will get to appreciate luxuries, such as better 
clothes, better food, etc., and then it would seem that 
the labour supply will be more elastic. Certain 
points strike one as giving proof that the present large 
Reserve system is not entirely satisfactory. The whole 
manual work inside the Reserves is done by women 
and children. Nearly the whole labour supply outside 
is done by the sickly, the undersized, or the old men. 
The class which in a civilised State would be regarded 
as the bread-winners, are here represented by brawny 
savages, covered with grease and oil and carrying 
enormous spears. This very large body do nothing, 
and exist on the efforts of their women-kind and weaker 
brethren. They offer a certain menace to the pros¬ 
perity of the country. It is this class who ought and 
some day will be made to do their fair share of work. 
Again there are certain districts where various crops 
grow well, but where there is' little local labour avail¬ 
able. This is the case on the Uasin Guishu plateau 
and on many parts of the coast. Here labour has to 
be imported, and that it may be induced to come, 
various attractions, monetary and otherwise, are held 
out. On this imported labour the Government keep, 
and rightly so, a very careful watch. Those portions 
of the Protectorate which were originally not inhabited 
by natives were left barren for definite causes ; in some 
instances it might be for fear of warlike and aggressive 
neighbours, in some perhaps through fear of wild beasts, 
but in some in all probability because the climate was 
found prejudicial to health. The question is a delicate 
one, but at all events it may be said that the movement 
of natives, like the Kikuyu, from the cool uplands to 
