The world: historical and actual . CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. CAPE TOWN, AND TABLE MOUNTAINS. subdued as to give no seriousIn their subjugation occurredil death of ayoung man whomay well be call-ed the last ofthe Bonapartes,the Prince Im-perial, son ofLouis Napoleonand was a veryworthy youth,and in the hopeof winning somemilitary renown,he went to thatdistant land asa mere spectator, melancholy fate excited trouble to the natives,the highly sensation- additional guarantee of republicanism in is no longer any danger from the Bonapartists. Had the son of. the greatper
The world: historical and actual . CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. CAPE TOWN, AND TABLE MOUNTAINS. subdued as to give no seriousIn their subjugation occurredil death of ayoung man whomay well be call-ed the last ofthe Bonapartes,the Prince Im-perial, son ofLouis Napoleonand was a veryworthy youth,and in the hopeof winning somemilitary renown,he went to thatdistant land asa mere spectator, melancholy fate excited trouble to the natives,the highly sensation- additional guarantee of republicanism in is no longer any danger from the Bonapartists. Had the son of. the greatperor, and Ambushed and slain,the sympathy of the em- thegrand nephew ofthe still greateremperor,return-ed with an hon-orable militaryrecord, he wouldhave been astanding men-ace to self-gov-ernment hi was inexpres-siblymelancholyfor such a brilliant childhood to fall a victim toZulu barbarity, but it may justly be said that all -±JS -kU 460 MINOR ASIA AND AFRICA. upon unconsciously those Kaffirs immolated himthe altar of French liberty. The island of St. Helena is accounted as an Afri-can island, although it is no less than 1,400 mileseast of the mainland. It contains only 47 squaremiles. The nearest land is the Isle of Ascension,and that is 800 miles distant. This solitary androcky speck in the Atlantic Ocean was rendered fa- the really great continents of to-day, Europe andAmerica, borrowed their religion from Asia, and thatin the birth-places of the two religions which aresupreme in the world, neither has now any Hurst divides the world,
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