Advanced Geography . -trading stations aLng the coast and onthe upper Kongo and its traders purchase ivory, palm oiland other The two great forested river basins of the ||torrid zone differ widely in many respects. TheAmazon basin slopes to the east; the Kongo, to thewest. The one is mainly a lowland; the other, aplateau. The former has twenty-five thousand miles ofstreams navigable from the sea; the latter has onlyninety miles. The Amazon basin is sparsely peopled byscattered tribes of Indians ; the Kongo basin supports tens ofmillions of Negroes. In what respects
Advanced Geography . -trading stations aLng the coast and onthe upper Kongo and its traders purchase ivory, palm oiland other The two great forested river basins of the ||torrid zone differ widely in many respects. TheAmazon basin slopes to the east; the Kongo, to thewest. The one is mainly a lowland; the other, aplateau. The former has twenty-five thousand miles ofstreams navigable from the sea; the latter has onlyninety miles. The Amazon basin is sparsely peopled byscattered tribes of Indians ; the Kongo basin supports tens ofmillions of Negroes. In what respects do these basins resemble each other? 80. Southern Africa. In the Zambezi basin are found the same changes fromforest to grass land and then to desert, as in Sudan. Theforests of the Zambezi basin are densest in the northernpart, where the equatorial rains fall in summer. Thesouthern part of the basin reaches the Kalahari desert. The Zambezi is the largest African river flowing intothe Indian ocean. This stream is thought to drain anarea equal to about two thirds that of the Mississippibasin. Locate the Victoria falls. These falls mark the place wh
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