Excerpt from The Gospel in All Lands, 1889: Illustrated In Northern Africa they are on the increase, and as that probably includes two-thirds of the population of the continent, the increase in the one may be left to counterbalance the decrease of the other, especially when we take into account the arrest of the decrease and in some cases the positive increase under the protection of Britain and other European powers in the south and west of Africa. 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.