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ch. xii] DIFFERENT SETTLERS 
Boers from South Africa and a number of English 
Africanders had come in, and no better pioneers exist 
to-day than these South Africans, both Dutch and 
English. Both are so good that I earnestly hope they 
will become indissolubly welded into one people, and 
the Dutch Boer has the supreme merit of preferring the 
country to the town and of bringing his wife and children 
—plenty of children—with him to settle on the land. 
The home-maker is the only type of settler of perma¬ 
nent value, and the cool, healthy, fertile Uasin Gishu 
region is an ideal land for the right kind of pioneer 
home- maker, whether he hopes to make his living by 
raising stock or by growing crops. 
At Sergoi Lake there is a store kept by Mr. Kirke, a 
South African of Scottish blood. With a kind courtesy 
which I cannot too highly appreciate, he, with the 
equally cordial help of another settler, Mr. Skally—also 
a South African, but of Irish birth—and of the District 
Commissioner, Mr. Corbett, had arranged for a party of 
Nandi warriors to come over and show me how they 
hunted the lion. Two Dutch farmers (Boers) from the 
neighbourhood had also come; they were Messrs. 
Mouton and Jordaan, fine fellows both, the former 
having served with De Wet during the war. Mr. and 
Mrs. Corbett—who were hospitality itself—had also 
come to see the sport, and so had Captain Chapman, an 
English army officer who was taking a rest after several 
years’ service in Northern Nigeria. 
The Nandi are a warlike pastoral tribe, close kin to 
the Masai in blood and tongue, in weapons and in 
manner of life. They have long been accustomed to 
kill with the spear lions which become man-eaters or 
which molest their cattle overmuch ; and the peace 
which British rule has imposed upon them—a peace so 
