. Our holiday in Africa . AFRICAN LEOPARD. OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. SUMMARY that we would like to sail on when the sea is rough. We sawseveral whale, and about half the deck of a large steamer thatpassed us quite close. We could not tell to what ship thisdeck had once belonged, but being al^out two hundred milessouth of where the Titanic sunk, and six weeks since thathorrible disaster, it might have been part of that unfortunateship. SUMMARY. After the short \-isit we have made to this \-ast continent,from our obser\-ation we would say that we think the soil isgenerally thin and poor. There are
. Our holiday in Africa . AFRICAN LEOPARD. OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. SUMMARY that we would like to sail on when the sea is rough. We sawseveral whale, and about half the deck of a large steamer thatpassed us quite close. We could not tell to what ship thisdeck had once belonged, but being al^out two hundred milessouth of where the Titanic sunk, and six weeks since thathorrible disaster, it might have been part of that unfortunateship. SUMMARY. After the short \-isit we have made to this \-ast continent,from our obser\-ation we would say that we think the soil isgenerally thin and poor. There are but few thick jungles,such as are found in the tropics in \A^est Indies or South Am-erica, e\en under the equator there are no such great junglesof forest as are found in I^razil. While the soil near theequator is the best we saw in Africa, and raises good crops,it does not ecjual the fertile prairies of our United States. InRhodesia, as well as most of South Africa, in the centralport of the continent, much of the country is sparsely coveredwith small trees ab
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