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8/12/1957 - Hugh Coltart: Profile of an Old Settler by Smith Hempstone Jr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT 7ORLD AFFAIRS September SH Huh Colar Profile Old Settler Nairobi Kenya Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York N Y Dear Rogers Hugh Coltart farms acres Njoro He years Coltart southern Scotland schooled draftsman Glasgow His father choice going university taking enormous amount money those He money deposited caught first Kenya That recalls books about Kenya begin published Three crops shoot before lunch wanted sounded paradise He landed lombasa caught first train Nairobi later across great Rift Val fertile highlands north There partner staked cutting HUGH COLTART rights plains Njoro He third white Lions before lunch country To protect cutting concession partner leased O00 acres years young named Cholmondeley third Baron Delamere O00 spread between Lakes Naivasha Elmenteita I All my300 three spans plains cutting first light gazelle break straight through shaved neighbors We young bachelors course On Sundays three would together other plains shoot anymore The First World War break rhythm Col commissioned East Africa lounted Rifles squadron dragoons furnished their horses rifles affected little uniforms He spent years chasing indomitable Von Lettow around Tanganyika thrice mentioned dispatches pains contracted fever which leaves today about His military record earned offer govern newly Tanganyika turned That Njoro blood couldn enough Things right after He partner their crops market They getting Then Russians dumped their European market price couldn field market price Coltart partner natives killed sticks price cartridge their mixed farming Despite being funds Coltart determined Delamere I somehow The price He partner interest balance Toward Coltart carrying overdraft Then conversion smash East Africa rupee Coltart borrowed money rupee The price fixed shillings rupee owing morning close It looked finished recalls partner wanted bankruptcy I while father alive I would never declare myself bankrupt The banks would Coltart partner Coltart could interest carried alone Then D elamere England damned Kenya dictator saved those armers their declared tempo moratorium debts Coltart beyond Kinangop which government given I service money began growing The great advantage things could Flax digestible Vith hands built comfortable little house which today He called Cantle Ha Cheerful Hall Cantie Ha began daylight during overdraf shrank little additional acres pasturage needed Red Poll cattle building The arrival world depression locusts three years black clouds which settled fields scarred naked burning There enough cornmeal recalls Once again aristocratic Delamere saved He Cantie Ha I working fields trying little locusts missed before bunch We talked while asked agents treating I pressuring You A great Delamere Delamere enormous overdraft himself meant badgered money Like everything times passed worked slumps Cantle Ha began headway about Coltart money provements management Lord Egerton Tatton Ngata spread bordering Cantie Ha That possible above water explains Things going enough Coltart think about getting THE NENSAAB He several years It Like cream happened visiting sister Kenya They married The years happy passed flash Coltart worked volcanic Cantie Ha Ngata state productivity which enabled overdraft which ridden shoulders quarter century He planted Sn acres wheat maize alfalfa barley sunflower always reserve grass His Red Poli cattle 500oand began taking prizes East African shows At Ngata dominated bachelor Lord Egerton gloomy castle developed healthy Frisian cattle sturdy sheep crops under cultivation Connie London Kenya cream Cantie Ha proper clinic school hired hands their families Then Nau Iau NIost Coltart Kikuyu hands found impli cated They hustled detention camps He their families He still doing There oathing ceremonies around N stock isolated homesteads attacked The whole region there harvest crops The whole economy country disrupted every effort terror The screens Cantie Ha windows revolvers bathroom dishes By terror contained By virtually ended All remained sense Of violated trust perhaps sides We somehow failed native We tried fairly honestly somewhere somehow failed Nost Kikuyu still detention camps He Kipsigis cattle Jaluo general But Kukes Life Cantie Ha Coltart whose silvery beginning getting where should earned right enjoy little He Connie regret haven children share years there other things Cantle Ha comfortable plumbing electricity generator stocked library travel books Africana Churchill books novels record player record library Connie table Njoro Club couple miles wants farming politics neighbors Coltart still He regularly sometimes shows supervise milking cattle He makes rounds Ngata Cantie Ha Hudson comes breakfast Connie Then reads morning works accounts young fellow helps place He again about stays fields until about Then comes inevitable lunch He again Hudson keeping things Someone usually Cantie Ha dinner likely young Philip arrow settled He never farmed before coming Kenya learn knows Or Brigadier Chandler European Settlement Board Nichael Blundell A nonsense farmer Nichael Coltart Ray Nayers Whoever aboht farming about their future Kenya For Hugh Coltart worri Vhat future Cantie Ha worked years build Tom Nboya white Kenya eight years Eight years spent changing piece O00 acres bloody Africa something And still skittles Cantle Ha profit sheet years Which Hugh Coltart years Or about Coltart intention quiting Having survived slump rupee conversion crash world depression three plagues locusts Nau Nau deterined stand against mounting African nationalism Even though realize history throat courage steadfastness alter opinion which running against their which built question They place Africa Hugh Coltart He hearing Tanganyika hands roughened dipping sheep building Cantie Ha His squint against remembered African sunsets But Hugh Coltart regrets illusions about chances being Cantie Ha favorite niece Does architect office Nairobi Thim country beautiful spend office Even nowing I I wouldn other Hugh Coltart simply He seems apologies Kenya Sincerely Received New York