Africa: An Account of Past and Contemporary Conditions and ProgressEthlyn T. Clough Bay View Reading Club, 1911 - 237 páginas |
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Africa: An Account of Past and Contemporary Conditions and Progress Ethlyn T. Clough Vista completa - 1911 |
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Abyssinia Algeria Algiers ancient annexed Arab army Atlantic Bantu Belgians Berber Boer Britain British government British possessions Cairo Cape Colony Central Africa century chief Christian civilization coast of Africa Congo Free continent cotton district Dutch dynasty East Egypt Egyptian Empire England English Europe European explorers extends feet foreign forests France French Galla Gambia German Gold Coast Hamitic hundred miles inhabitants interior island Italian Italy ivory Khedive King kingdom Kribi Lake Nyassa Lake Tchad land Liberia Mediterranean Mehemet Menelik million mission missionaries Mohammedan Morocco mountains nation native nearly Negro Niger Nigeria Nile northern Nyanza Orange River plateau population Portuguese prosperity Protectorate race railway region Rhodesia rubber rule Sahara Desert Sierra Leone South Africa southern sphere of influence square miles Sudan Sultan territory thousand Thuthmes tion Town Transvaal treaties tribes Tripoli tropical Tunis Tunisia Uganda West Africa West Coast Zambesi Zanzibar
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Página 237 - Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience — Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown ; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!
Página 85 - ... death could extort from him a syllable which could implicate any one of his fellow1 Don Quixote, I., chap. xl. (WATTS) : " Every day he hanged a slave ; impaled one ; cut off the ears of another ; and this upon so little animus, or so entirely without cause, that the Turks would own he did it merely for the sake of doing it, and because it was his nature.
Página 187 - Laws was the first to introduce into this country, orchards of oranges and limes, and tidy plantations of local vegetables. Altogether, Bandawe, with its little colony of five Europeans, its large school of native children, its dependent villages of friendly natives, and its general air of brisk industry and cheerful comfort, is one of the most creditable and agreeable results of British missionary enterprise which ever gladdened the eyes of a traveller weary with the monotonous savagery of African...
Página 35 - England, it was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that the double standard was abolished.
Página 126 - I have no hesitation in saying that I have ever thought that the most desirable measure which could be adopted, for gradually drawing off this part of our population — most advantageous for themselves as well as for us.
Página 179 - Here, gentlemen, is your opportunity - embrace it! The people on the shores of the Nyanza call upon you. Obey your own generous instincts, and listen to them; and I assure you that in one year you will have more converts to Christianity than all other missionaries united can number.
Página 134 - The new provincial governments are to be of a composite character, and to contain both an official and a non-official, or popular element. On the official side they will be modelled on the existing governments of the Presidencies, which have " council governments ". Under this system the government is carried on by a governor assisted by an executive council, and official acts are performed in the name of the " Governor-in-Council ". On the popular side the new governments will consist of the governor...
Página 85 - Barbarossa, who called himself the "Friend of the Sea and the Enemy of all who sail upon it.
Página 121 - After the war of the Spanish Succession, the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, transferred the " Asiento