MOMBASA 
7 
CH. i] 
We were welcomed to Government House in most 
cordial fashion by the acting Governor, Lieutenant- 
Governor Jackson, who is not only a trained public 
official of long experience, but a first-class field-naturalist 
and a renowned big-game hunter ; indeed, I could not 
too warmly express my appreciation of the hearty and 
generous courtesy with which we were received and 
treated, alike by the official and the unofficial world, 
throughout East Africa. We landed in the kind of 
torrential downpour that only comes in the tropics; it 
reminded me of Panama at certain moments in the 
rainy season. That night we were given a dinner by 
the Mombasa Club, and it was interesting to meet the 
merchants and planters of the town and the neighbour¬ 
hood as well as the officials. The former included not 
only Englishmen, but also Germans and Italians, 
which is quite as it should be, for at least part of the 
high inland region of British East Africa can be made 
one kind of “ white mans country,” and to achieve 
this white men should work heartily together, doing 
scrupulous justice to the natives, but remembering that 
progress and development in this particular kind of new 
land depend exclusively upon the masterful leadership 
of the whites, and that therefore it is both a calamity 
and a crime to permit the whites to be riven in sunder 
by hatreds and jealousies. The coast regions of British 
East Africa are not suited for extensive white settle¬ 
ment ; but the hinterland is, and there everything 
should be done to encourage such settlement. Non¬ 
white aliens should not be encouraged to settle where 
they come into rivalry with the whites (exception being 
made as regards certain particular individuals and certain 
particular occupations). 
There are, of course, large regions on the coast and in 
