Excerpt from The Universities' Mission to Central Africa: A Speech Delivered at Oxford One asked oneself naturally where do these people get their European goods from? Where are the merchants, who could send us supplies in the ordinary course of their trade We then heard, almost for the first time, of Zanzibar. The Portuguese settlers supplied none but their imme diate neighbours, not even the people on the Upper Shire; all the rest of tropical Africa goes to Zanzibar. More and more the conviction grew upon us that the ...
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Excerpt from The Universities' Mission to Central Africa: A Speech Delivered at Oxford One asked oneself naturally where do these people get their European goods from? Where are the merchants, who could send us supplies in the ordinary course of their trade We then heard, almost for the first time, of Zanzibar. The Portuguese settlers supplied none but their imme diate neighbours, not even the people on the Upper Shire; all the rest of tropical Africa goes to Zanzibar. More and more the conviction grew upon us that the heart of Africa was to be found there. Now all the world has found it out, but when we first heard of it its trade was a secret in the hands of a few American and German merchants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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