Four Thousand Miles of African Travel

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Excerpt from Four Thousand Miles of African Travel: A Personal Record of a Journey Up the Nile and Through the Soudan to the Confines of Central AfricaTo ms record of the author's travels in Africa is added an examination at the problem of the sources of the Nile. While he has believed that the study of the people of the globe, and not the globe itself, is the more interesting, an effort has been made to set forth the physical characteristics of the White and Blue Nile regions, which, as extended alluvial empires, are unsurpassed in the world. Awaiting, with confidence, the day when capital and anglo-saxon dnergy will release the degraded negro peoples from their ages of bondage. And convert them into intelligent artisans and industrious tillers of the soil, the immediate lesson he has deduced from till) miles of travel between the Mediterranean sea and the torrid regions of the Soudan, is this: that a few bold, rapid strokes of humanity and enterprise on the part at the Christian powers, would add producers, now self-consumers, to the modern arts and industries. In a word, Africa should be Americanized, the cruel wrongs sn¿ered by her people should be stoned for by practical measures of relief, and a guardianship not unlike that extended over India by Great Britain should in all haste begin.South America has been largely reclaimed from her long stagnation. Africa is another South America promising greater substance, demanding prompter energy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.