Excerpt from Africa: A Supplementary Geography IN response to the influences of modern life, the ancient continent of Africa is experiencing wonder ful changes. Wherever climatic conditions are such as to make it safe for the white man to live, he is establishing farms and plantations, operating mines, and building roads and cities. The venerable pyramids look down upon\ rail road which will in a few years connect Cape Town and Cairo. The automobile traverses the northern Sahara where formerly only the caravan wound its way. Splendid cities, having all of the conveniences of those in Europe and the United States, are devel Oping both in the interior and on the coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.