He was further instructed to lure the moderate Kelekele elders to meet with the white settlers to discuss how they could coexist. If they conformed to the European demands they would be assisted with whatever the Kelekele communities needed and especially food and water boreholes during droughts and famines. Slowly the non‑conformist Kelekeles were driven far over the hills into the harsh desolate, barren scrublands where many perished with their livestock. The conformist traitors were hired as laborers in the acquired settlers’ farms and paid in kind, knives, old clothes, blankets, salt, sugar and other foodstuffs. The more trusted royalists were hired as gardeners and house servants by the whites and were slowly integrated into the European conspiracy with the express recommendations of

