The trade of the world . From a photograph |.y the Delruit Co A Market-Place in From a photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. The Entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Said. THE TRADE OF NORTHERN AFRICA 201 same east and west, presenting all possible varia-tions of climate, unlimited in the extent and rangeof its natural resources, inhabited by 150,000,000people, a tenth of the earths humanity, of all colorsknown to the human race, and speaking with poly-glot tongue. Its civilization is ancient and mod-ern ; its barbarism the same. The ruins of Memphisspeak eloquently of
The trade of the world . From a photograph |.y the Delruit Co A Market-Place in From a photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. The Entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Said. THE TRADE OF NORTHERN AFRICA 201 same east and west, presenting all possible varia-tions of climate, unlimited in the extent and rangeof its natural resources, inhabited by 150,000,000people, a tenth of the earths humanity, of all colorsknown to the human race, and speaking with poly-glot tongue. Its civilization is ancient and mod-ern ; its barbarism the same. The ruins of Memphisspeak eloquently of glories existing in the days whenEurope and America were the haunts of wild men;the modern cities reflect the present-day life of therest of the world; and yet from the jungle, distantonly a few days journey, naked savages still peepfor their first look upon a white man. In all this land and among all these millions ofpeople not one community has yet been found equalto the task of intelligent self-government on mod-em lines. Hence it is that this great domain haspassed, peacefully in most cases, u
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