. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. ee hun-dred thousand inhabitants. This plant, or rathergrass, resembles the sugar-cane; it has a sweet,juicy pith and grows to the height of from fourto eight feet. El Obeid, the chief town, with apopulation of thirty thousand, receives the agri-cultural produce of the native negroes. South of these three Sudanese countries is theriver land, the Zeriba district of the country is one of the most fertile in Africa,rich in cattle, fruit, and corn. At one periodit was frequently raided, as indeed were most ofthe C
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. ee hun-dred thousand inhabitants. This plant, or rathergrass, resembles the sugar-cane; it has a sweet,juicy pith and grows to the height of from fourto eight feet. El Obeid, the chief town, with apopulation of thirty thousand, receives the agri-cultural produce of the native negroes. South of these three Sudanese countries is theriver land, the Zeriba district of the country is one of the most fertile in Africa,rich in cattle, fruit, and corn. At one periodit was frequently raided, as indeed were most ofthe Central African States, by the Arabs in theirsearch for slaves, who were marched in gangseither northeast to the Red Sea, or eastward toSomaliland and the shores of the Indian Ocean. Though differently named, and separated fromItalian Somaliland by the political frontier of theJuba river, British East Africa is really a part ofSomaliland. The same general features prevail,except in the western region round the greatlakes. In the center of the British possession lies Lake. WARFARE IN ITS PRIMITIVE TERMS—A NUBIAN II. 20. 30s 306 PEEPS INTO AFRICAN COUNTRIES Rudolf, one hundred and sixty miles long andtwenty miles broad. It is fed by streams whichrise in the Kaffa uplands, whence comes some ofthe finest coffee that is to be had, and from whichthe name of the beverage is said to be the south is Mount Kenia, one of the highestpeaks in Africa. The climate is very peculiar. The coast landshave their wet season from December to May;whereas in the interior the rains begin in Marchand continue till June. The hot lands, which ex-tend from the coast up to the height of five thou-sand feet on the plateau ridges, grow cotton,indigo, ebony, sugar-canes, date-palms, coffee-plants and banana trees. Higher up, that is, above eight thousand feet,is the temperate zone, where grow most of thegrasses and cereals of Europe, and also the tere-binth (or turpentine) and ju
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