This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... MAP OF AFRICA, ARABIA, ETC., TO SHOW BY DEGREES OF SHADING THE GREATER OR LESSER BACKWARDNESS OF THE INHABITANTS. the middle of the nineteenth century they have increased to more than 600,000 in number and are very prosperous. Unfortunately the Basuto chiefs are much given to drunkenness and have lost a good ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... MAP OF AFRICA, ARABIA, ETC., TO SHOW BY DEGREES OF SHADING THE GREATER OR LESSER BACKWARDNESS OF THE INHABITANTS. the middle of the nineteenth century they have increased to more than 600,000 in number and are very prosperous. Unfortunately the Basuto chiefs are much given to drunkenness and have lost a good deal of the respect once felt for them, and with it that control over their people which will be necessary in the future if the Basuto are to live peaceably alongside millions of white men who would be glad of an excuse to evict them from this delectable portion of South Africa and move them to another location farther north. The ' savage ' peoples of Africa are now few in number: perhaps a hundred thousand in Portuguese Guinea (south of the Gambia); a million in Liberia, another million in the southern part of French Nigeria (i.e. north of the Ivory Coast), about two millions in South-eastern British Nigeria and the adjoining Cameroons, two hundred thousand in South Cameroons and the inner Gaboon and alongthe course of the Sanga River; three or four millions in the Belgian Congo, half a million in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and French Central Africa, a few thousand on the south-west flanks of Abyssinia, and a couple of thousand Bushmen still lingering in the western part of the Kalahari Desert, or in southernmost Angola. But the ' backward ' peoples of Africa range from the south of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Egypt over the whole rest of Africa, except those portions of Cape Colony, Damaraland, Natal, the Transvaal, Orange State, lower Mozambique and Rhodesia inhabited by White people. CHAPTER II WHY ARE THEY BACKWARD? Some races or peoples have never come forward. The Australoids, the Papuans, the Melanesians of Australia, New Guinea and...
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