New geographies . nturies the Negroes have been seized andcarried away as slaves to various parts of theworld. Even to-day, the Arabsseize many of them for that pur-pose. Such treatment has nothelped to make them friendly towhite men. Strange as it may seem,the best-known part of Af-Why the south- ^ca is the veryem part is best southern tip, the^^ part farthest from Europe. You will no-tice that this region lies inthe temperate zone, which isone reason why Europeanshave gone there. Anotherreason is that, in formerdays, ships going from Eu-rope to India had to sailaround the Cape of GoodHope. I
New geographies . nturies the Negroes have been seized andcarried away as slaves to various parts of theworld. Even to-day, the Arabsseize many of them for that pur-pose. Such treatment has nothelped to make them friendly towhite men. Strange as it may seem,the best-known part of Af-Why the south- ^ca is the veryem part is best southern tip, the^^ part farthest from Europe. You will no-tice that this region lies inthe temperate zone, which isone reason why Europeanshave gone there. Anotherreason is that, in formerdays, ships going from Eu-rope to India had to sailaround the Cape of GoodHope. In this way menlearned about that section; You can see from the map that Africais divided into many more countries thanour continent ever was. What parts areowned by Great Britain (Fig. 310) ? ByGermany? By France? What othercountries have colonies there (Fig. 290) ?Make a sketch of Africa, .showing thesections owned by the three GreatPowers of Europe just mentioned. .4,i^p«»»**^ ^jiffiilS^^^ ..-^liSi^^fiSii*^.,. and long before other parts of the continent wereoccupied by Europeans, the Dutch hadcolonies in South Africa. This is nowthe best developed part of the during the last half century hasthere been much exploration and set-Parts of Africa element in other parts ofrecently seized Africa. In that time, how-by Europeans Q^ev, some of the countriesof Europe have been very active, andhave laid claim to a large part of thecontinent, just as they laid claim toNorth America several centuries ago. Fig. 294. — A negro hut in Africa. Now that so much of Africa is underthe control of Europeans, people are go-ing there to explore and set- improvementstie, just as people have come made by Euro-to our own country. Thus P**°®the continent is rapidly becoming known. In the past, in most parts of Africa,there have been very few wagon had to be carried either on therivers or along paths or trails. Thenatives themselves usually carried thesegoods on their ba
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