. Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century . 123 VI. Darkest Africa 153 VII. Uganda 189 VIII. The War in Abyssinia 227 IX. Zanzibar 250 X. The Barbary States 266 XI. Liberia, and Marylands own Colony . 290 XII. Englands Little Wars 321 XIII. Diamond Fields and Gold Mines . . 345 XIV. Rhodesia 361 XV. The French in Africa 390 XVI. Madagascar 425 Index 441 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. David Livingstone Frontispiece Mehemet Ali To face page 12 Ibrahim Pasha 22 General Sir Garnet Wolseley 54 Sir Samuel Baker 70 General Gordon 84 The Mahdi . 96 Father Ohrwalder 106 Henry Moreland Stanley 130 Emin Pas
. Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century . 123 VI. Darkest Africa 153 VII. Uganda 189 VIII. The War in Abyssinia 227 IX. Zanzibar 250 X. The Barbary States 266 XI. Liberia, and Marylands own Colony . 290 XII. Englands Little Wars 321 XIII. Diamond Fields and Gold Mines . . 345 XIV. Rhodesia 361 XV. The French in Africa 390 XVI. Madagascar 425 Index 441 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. David Livingstone Frontispiece Mehemet Ali To face page 12 Ibrahim Pasha 22 General Sir Garnet Wolseley 54 Sir Samuel Baker 70 General Gordon 84 The Mahdi . 96 Father Ohrwalder 106 Henry Moreland Stanley 130 Emin Pasha 154 Tippu Tib 174 Captain F. D. Lugard 208 General Sir Robert Napier . 244 Captain William Bainbridge 272 Commodore Edward Preble 276 Dr. James Hall 296 Cetywayo 322 Prince Louis Napoleon 336 Cecil John Rhodes 362 Abdel Kader 394 Paul du Chaillu 418 Queen Ranavalona HI 432 Charles de Freycinet 436 MAPS. Political Divisions of Africa .... To face page 8 Central Africa 124 South Africa . ,..,.... 346 rSi/V GAMBIA I Freetown ~> Op lAO^. The |>OLitriCALDivisions i or AFRICA. eAST IIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIy I / GERMAN \b\it!sh sAFm^ XAFH/.PKA , «.,.^ ?iui^^ f^.AV. TITIJO<} 3HT AjmiA \ I EUROPE IN AFRICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. CHAPTER I. MEHEMET ALL WHILE one morning preparing to begin this sketch ofEurope in Africa, my eye fell upon the column of Situations Wanted in a local morning paper, and I readthe advertisement of a young Swiss who desired a positionas valet and interpreter, concluding with the words : Noobjection to Africa. Such an announcement could not have been possible in1822, the year when the reminiscences contained in thisseries of papers on the nineteenth century may be said tobegin. South Africa was then only a field for missionary labors,or the watering station for great merchantmen upon theirway to India; West Africa, East Africa, and Central Africawere known only to the Portuguese and slave traders. TheAfrica that borders on the Mediterranean had severed
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