WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE KIKUYU AND KAMBA TRIBES OF KENYA COLONY; TOGETHER WITH SOME REFLECTIONS ON EAST AFRICA AFTER THE WAR
BY
C. W. HOBLEY, C.M.G.
M. R. Anthrop. Inst., C.M.Z.S., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E.
(Late Senior Provincial Commissioner, Kenya Colony)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
SIR JAMES G. FRAZER, F.R.S., &c.
LONDON
H. F. & G. WITHERBY
326 HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.
1922
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PREFACE
It is often said that the longer one knows the native the less one knows, and the less one understands him. This expression is doubtless comforting to persons who have not the patience to systematically study him and his views on life, but it could with convenience be replaced by a saying to the effect that the more one knows of the native the more one realises how much remains to be learnt.
The spirit of this is in accordance with the true attitude to all other branches of knowledge, for the more one learns, the more the map unfolds, and one gradually realises the vastness of the country to be explored.