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chief whom they could induce to consent to that process, 
and that therefore the cash bonus, though no doubt 
acceptable, would in reality effect no educational 
purpose. Secondly, that unless the Missions would 
. consent not to proselytise the said youths, which 
consent they indignantly and not unnaturally refused, 
it would hardly lead to peace to impose with the aid 
of public money a denominational conflict on the 
unfortunate savage. Thirdly, that, perhaps in¬ 
evitably but most unfortunately, the Mission-educated 
native does not bear a good name either among 
his fellow natives or among Europeans. It is, 
alas! a very generally accepted fact that one should 
beware of Mission servants, who almost invariably 
lie, drink, and steal. These arguments won the 
day and the education of future chiefs was not, 
generally speaking, entrusted to State - supported 
Missions. If an opinion may be ventured from an 
outside view, it is that for the present we might con¬ 
fine the main portion of our energies and our cash to 
giving the native the chance of a technical education. 
When funds permit, the formation of a school in 
Nairobi for the sons of chiefs would no doubt be an 
excellent idea. As in India, the opportunity of send¬ 
ing the future chief to such an institution would very 
shortly prove one of the most coveted privileges of 
each native ruler, and the boys trained therein would 
be, not a source of weakness, but of strength and 
loyalty. 
The supply of teachers, especially of the lower grades, 
is rather limited. This difficulty is complicated by the 
supposed necessity of a six months’ holiday after thirty 
months’ service. This implies the necessity of the re¬ 
tention of a considerably larger staff than would be 
