AFRICA: A. D. 1899. Progress of the Telegraph line from the Cape to Cairo. See (in this volume) TELEGRAPH, CAPE TO CAIRO. AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (German Colonies). Cost to Germany, trade, etc. See (in this volume) GERMANY: A. D. 1899 (JUNE). AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (Nigeria). Transfer of territory to the British Crown. See (in this volume) NIGERIA: A. D. 1899. AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (Orange Free State). Treaty of alliance with the Transvaal. Making common cause. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (ORANGE FREE STATE): A. D. 1897 (APRIL); and 1899 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER). AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (The Sudan). Anglo-Egyptian Condominium established. See (in this volume) EGYPT: A. D. 1899 (JANUARY). AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (Transvaal and Orange Free State). Outbreak of war with Great Britain. See (in this volume) SOUTH AFRICA (TRANSVAAL AND ORANGE FREE STATE): A. D. 1899 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER). AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (West Africa). Definition of British and German frontiers. See (in this volume) SAMOAN ISLANDS. AFRICA: A. D. 1899 (Zanzibar). Renunciation of rights of extra-territoriality by Germany. See (in this volume) SAMOAN ISLANDS. AFRICA: A. D. 1899-1900. Summary of the partition of the Continent. "Seven European nations, as before remarked, now control territories in Africa, two of them having areas equal in each case to about the entire land area of the United States, while a few small territories remain as independent States. Beginning at the northeast, Egypt and Tripoli are nominally at least tributaries of Turkey, though the Egyptian Government, which was given large latitude by that of Turkey, has of late years formed such relations with Great Britain that, in financial matters at least, her guidance is recognized; next west, Algeria, French; then Morocco on the extreme northwest, an independent Government and an absolute despotism; next on the south, Spain's territory of Rio de Oro; then the Senegal territories, belonging to the French, and connecting through the desert of Sahara with her Algeria; then a group of small divisions controlled by England, along the Gulf of Guinea; then Liberia, the black Republic; Togoland, controlled by the Germans; Dahomey, a French protectorate; the Niger territory, one-third the size of the United States, controlled by England; Kamerun, controlled by Germany; French Kongo; then the Kongo Free State, under the auspices of the King of Belgium, and occupying the very heart of equatorial Africa; then Portuguese Angola; next, German South west Africa; and finally in the march down the Atlantic side, Cape Colony, British. {5} Following up the eastern side comes the British colony of Natal; then just inland from this the two Boer Republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, both of