could see the possibilities of the country. 
There should be storage reservoirs in the 
hills and along the rivers—in my judgment 
built by the government, and paid for by 
the water-users in the shape of water-rents 
—and irrigation ditches; with the water 
stored and used there would be an excellent 
opening for small farmers, for the settlers, 
the actual home-makers, who, above all 
others, should be encouraged to come into 
a white man’s country like this of the high¬ 
lands of East Africa. Even as it is, many 
settlers do well; it is hard to realize that 
right under the equator the conditions are 
such that wheat, potatoes, strawberries, 
apples, all flourish. No new country is a 
place for weaklings; but the right kind of 
man, the settler who makes a success in 
similar parts of our own West, can do well 
in East Africa; while a man with money 
can undoubtedly do very well indeed; and 
incidentally both men will be leading their 
lives under conditions peculiarly attractive 
to a certain kind of spirit. It means hard 
work, of course; but success generally does 
imply hard work. 
The plains were generally covered only 
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with the thick grass on which the great 
herds of game fed; here and there small 
thorn-trees grew upon them, but usually so 
small and scattered as to give no shelter or 
cover. By the occasional watercourses the 
trees grew more thickly, and also on the 
hills and in the valleys between. Most of 
the trees were mimosas, or of similar kind, 
usually thorny; but there were giant cac¬ 
tus-like Euphorbias, shaped like candela- 
bras, and named accordingly; and on the 
higher hills fig-trees, wild olives, and many 
others whose names I do not know, but 
some of which were stately and beautiful. 
Many of the mimosas were in bloom, and 
covered with sweet-smelling yellow blos¬ 
soms. There were many flowers. On the 
dry plains there were bushes of the color 
and size of our own sagebrush, covered 
with flowers like morning-glories. There 
were also wild sweet-peas, on which the os¬ 
triches fed; as they did on another plant 
with a lilac flower of a faint heliotrope fra¬ 
grance. Among the hills there were masses 
of singularly fragrant flowers like pink jes¬ 
samines, growing on bushes sometimes fif¬ 
teen feet high or over. There were white 
