. Review of reviews and world's work . A TYPE OF TRADING STATION ON AN AFRICAN RIVER (The carrying trade of these factories is rapidly being won by theGerman cargo boats) 314 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. YOUNG ARAB GIRLS OF THE PEASANT CLASS flag. Great Britain had been too slow—?that was all. (4) The next year (1885) the German out-witted the Briton again, on the east coastthis time. East of Lake Tanganika, betweenBritish and Portuguese East Africa, lies thebig colony of German East Africa. Thisalso was acquired cleverly but legally throughtreaties with native chiefs. Three Germanswho were
. Review of reviews and world's work . A TYPE OF TRADING STATION ON AN AFRICAN RIVER (The carrying trade of these factories is rapidly being won by theGerman cargo boats) 314 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. YOUNG ARAB GIRLS OF THE PEASANT CLASS flag. Great Britain had been too slow—?that was all. (4) The next year (1885) the German out-witted the Briton again, on the east coastthis time. East of Lake Tanganika, betweenBritish and Portuguese East Africa, lies thebig colony of German East Africa. Thisalso was acquired cleverly but legally throughtreaties with native chiefs. Three Germanswho were supposed to be mechanics landedand appeared to be unwelcome guests at theGerman consulate. Nobody kept track ofthem as they wandered about and thentrailed off into the interior—but when theytrailed back to the coast they had the docu-ments that enabled Germany to raise itsflag over a region that makes it apparentlyimpossible for England to realize its dream ofan unbroken stretch of empire from Cairoto Cape Town, with a rail-road running entirely acrossAfrica. That railroad couldbe carried on British soilfrom Khartoum through theSudan nearly to Tangan-ika; and it has already beenbrought northw
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