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inefficient workforce. On the contrary, Ainsworth believed it important to educate
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who inhabited the region. Ainsworth spent his first twenty months constructing a stone fort and was quickly recognised for his efficiency and ability to provide travelling caravans with fresh milk, fruit and vegetables. From his fort in
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and developed a personal liking for the tribe. One traveller described his administration as "tactful" and the fort as "homely". He was regarded as being more sympathetic towards
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accused him of turning the Kamba into drunkards and idlers by trying to promote their agricultural development rather than encouraging them to work for wages on
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