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At lunch, in addition to the missionaries and their wives 
and children, there were half a dozen of the neighboring 
settlers, with their families. It is always a good thing to 
see the missionary and the settler working shoulder to 
shoulder. Many parts of East Africa can, and I believe will, 
be made into a White Man’s country; and the process will 
be helped, not hindered, by treating the black man well. 
Mr. Roosevelt after luncheon with the head missionary 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 
At Kijabe, nearly under the equator, the beautiful scenery 
was almost northern in type; at night we needed blazing 
camp-fires and the days were as cool as September on Long 
Island or by the southern shores of the Great Lakes. It 
is a very healthy region; the children of the missionaries 
and settlers, of all ages, were bright and strong; those of 
Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had not been out of the country 
for eight years, and showed no ill effects whatever; on the 
contrary, I quite believed Mrs. Hurlburt when she said that 
