Excerpt from Official Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the Mission in North Africa of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Held in the Mission House, 61, Rue Hadjamine, Tunis, February 21-25, 1912 Thus France is at last able to consolidate and develop her vast North, West and Central African empire, covering an area of about square miles, or approximately the area of the United States Alaska. It is unique among the European possessions in E Africa in being an unbroken block of territory, and may thus be developed more as a unit. The form of the protectorate in Morocco is expected to follow closely the lines of that of Tunis, and the report of the Commission on the same is expected daily. 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.