Actual Africa, or the Coming Continent: A Tour of Exploration (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Actual Africa, or the Coming Continent: A Tour of Exploration

When, some years ago, Victor Hugo said that in the twentieth century Africa would be the cynosure of every eye, and when, more recently, Lord Salisbury, apropos of the European situation, remarked that foreign politics meant African politics, each state ment was an index to the immense resources of that great and crowded continent in which the Twilight is now succeeding to the Dark.

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