There, he undertook a variety of jobs, including schoolteacher, soldier, farmer, and gold miner before he decided to return to England in 1891.
[1] In 1892, at the age of 32, he arrived at Mombasa, having joined the Imperial British East Africa Company as Acting Superintendent of the District of Kikuyu.
[3] Before Christmas that year, Ward was seriously injured when attacked by a rhinoceros and a few months later he was bitten by a leopard during a grapple.
Later that year he started construction on a fort in Ngong to maintain the peace amongst the Maasai and encourage them to abandon their pastoral lifestyle which provoked livestock theft.
Hall became disillusioned with his role under the new Protectorate administration, complaining he was spending most of his time "slinging ink" with "silly despatches" and he was little more than a police officer guarding the track of the Uganda Railway.