. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. SCHOOL maps of Africa fifty years agoconveyed the impression that the greatcontinent was a vast blank waste of sand,fringed around the coast-line with mis-sionary and trading stations. The cen-\.\\xy closes with a map of a new Africa,its desert transformed into a picture ofluxuriant animal and ves:etable life,teeming with strange tribes, highlyskilled in arts of rude civilization, itssurface netted with the boundary lines of newly created statesand territories larger than European kingdoms. This newAfrica is fa
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. SCHOOL maps of Africa fifty years agoconveyed the impression that the greatcontinent was a vast blank waste of sand,fringed around the coast-line with mis-sionary and trading stations. The cen-\.\\xy closes with a map of a new Africa,its desert transformed into a picture ofluxuriant animal and ves:etable life,teeming with strange tribes, highlyskilled in arts of rude civilization, itssurface netted with the boundary lines of newly created statesand territories larger than European kingdoms. This newAfrica is fast becoming the El Dorado of adventurers of everynationality, who are eagerly grasping greater or less sectionsof its soil in the name of monarchs or companies, by treatywith natives, by strategy, or by conquest. To Africa areturned the eyes of those whose dream is of wealth, wealth tobe gotten by magic, not by the slow process of trade ; and inAfrica lie the hopes of world-reforming seers, who have allbut despaired of finding a fit outlet for the energies of con-gested populati
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