In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . interesting man was Mr. Bailey, recentlyof the local legislature. Mr. Bailey of Nairobi andLord Delamere of Njoro have so stoutly main-tained the right of the English colonists to limitthe game preserves, which are now eight times thearea of Massachusetts, that they have had a col-lision with Governor Sadler. From wha
In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . interesting man was Mr. Bailey, recentlyof the local legislature. Mr. Bailey of Nairobi andLord Delamere of Njoro have so stoutly main-tained the right of the English colonists to limitthe game preserves, which are now eight times thearea of Massachusetts, that they have had a col-lision with Governor Sadler. From what I couldlearn about Governor Sadler, I should esteem himto be a conservative man and one inclined to beextremely kind to the native races. But, of course,the reserving of so much land for the wild gameand the granting to the natives of reserves largeenough to accommodate the increase of populationfor a hundred years to come, has raised a stormamong the pioneers. Mr. Bailey and Lord Dela-mere were the spokesmen of the more radical ofthe pioneers. They went to the Government Houselast year with certain requests to the Governor, andsome of the more ebullitionary of their followerscried out to the Governor, Resign! Resign! Flan-nel foot, as they did in Boston in the good old. Nairobi 245 days. Whereupon the Governor promptly expelledMr. Bailey and Lord Delamere from the LegislativeCouncil. The ejected councillors appealed to the Govern-ment at London, but the Home Government sup-ported Governor Sadler. Mr. Bailey and LordDelamere are considered the patriotic leaders of thecolony and the end is not yet. This is another illustration of the immensely in-dividualistic character of the Anglo-Saxon. Hereis a colony of three thousand Englishmen, tryingto raise a revolution in a land inhabited by fivemillion blacks, against a Government directing thedestiny of four hundred million human beings. Imet Mr. Bailey one day at the station in Nairobiand he gave me a little idea of his side of th
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