. The railroad and engineering journal . tions. Whether passengers might not prefer the longer seavoyage to a ride of three or four days by rail through theheats of equatorial Africa, with risks of disease, M. deRochas does not consider worth serious treatment, in viewof the unquestioned saving in time. Pernambuco has already rail connections with a con-siderable part of Brazil, and with the European line once voyage through the Red Sea and the Sue/ Canal is a thingof the past. Still another branch from a point in the Central Soudanto the East African Coast at Mozambique or the mouth of theZam
. The railroad and engineering journal . tions. Whether passengers might not prefer the longer seavoyage to a ride of three or four days by rail through theheats of equatorial Africa, with risks of disease, M. deRochas does not consider worth serious treatment, in viewof the unquestioned saving in time. Pernambuco has already rail connections with a con-siderable part of Brazil, and with the European line once voyage through the Red Sea and the Sue/ Canal is a thingof the past. Still another branch from a point in the Central Soudanto the East African Coast at Mozambique or the mouth of theZambesi will furnish a short line to Australia and NewZealand. Here, then, we have a system which will revolu-tionize thecommerceof the world and turn the entire tradeof the East into new channels. Far-reaching as were theresults which followed the opening of our own Pacificrailroads, they will be small when compared with thoseattending the completion of the African Trans-conti-nental. The commercial center of the world will be transferred. AFRICAN TRANSCONTINENTAL LINES. established these will be extended until the city becomesthe central point to which all the railroad systems of SouthAmerica will converge. Two leading lines may be in-dicated ; one through the Amazon Valley to Bolivia andPeru, the other leading directly to Valparaiso.|g In support of this comprehensive plan a political reasonis^brought forward, which is perhaps best expressed inM. de Rochas own words : The North Americans do not conceal their purpose of extend-ing the Monroe Doctrine to South America. But between theNorth Americans and the South Americans there is nothing incommon but the American name. The South American is ofthe Latin Race. That race does not wish, it cannot, it has noright to permit itself to be absorbed by any other. Its vitalityextends through the whole Latin world ; and in drawing itslines of relationship closer, it will raise still higher its historicalstandard. - Now, the Western Trans-A
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