. A complete geography . herefore both wider and higherthan Niagara; but the volume of water is less. Nor is the coast especially favorable to commerce. For longdistances there are no good harbors, while the river mouths arechoked with sand bars which render entrance difficult. A break-water has made Table Bay a good port, and around its shores,beautifully situated at the base of the Table Mountain (Fig. 532), CENTRAL AFRICA. 521 is Cape Town, the capital and largest city of Cape Colony. It isconnected with the interior by a railway line, the southern end ofthe proposed railway from Cape Town
. A complete geography . herefore both wider and higherthan Niagara; but the volume of water is less. Nor is the coast especially favorable to commerce. For longdistances there are no good harbors, while the river mouths arechoked with sand bars which render entrance difficult. A break-water has made Table Bay a good port, and around its shores,beautifully situated at the base of the Table Mountain (Fig. 532), CENTRAL AFRICA. 521 is Cape Town, the capital and largest city of Cape Colony. It isconnected with the interior by a railway line, the southern end ofthe proposed railway from Cape Town to Cairo. A second important harbor is that of Delagoa Bay, upon which is situ-ated LouRENgo Marquez, the capital of Portuguese East Africa. Beingconnected by rail with the interior, this port has been much used for theshipment of Transvaal products. Durbax, the seaport of Natal, is asmall city also connected with the Transvaal by rail. The two principalinterior cities are Kimberley and Johannesburg (p. 519). There is no. Fig. steamer on the Kongo. important town in German South Africa, which is for the most partan arid plateau. To what nation does Walfiscli Bay belong ? Central Africa This vast area is in large part a great unknown. Much of it istropical forest ; but on the northern and southern sides are opensavannas (p. 291). The Rivers. — Owing to the heavy rainfall of the forest belt, therivers are large. The Nile and Zambesi, already described, and theNiger and Kongo, all receive water from the equatorial rains. TheNiger is navigable in sections ; but there are rapids in some parts,and in its northern portion tlie river dwindles in size because of thedry climate. 522 AFRICA It is the immense Kongo, which empties into the sea a fewdegrees south of the equator, that offers the best means of entranceto Central Africa. Although it is interrupted by a series of falls ashort distance from the coast, above Stanley Pool there are thousandsof miles of navigable waters in t
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