The last frontier : $b The white man's war for civilisation in AfricaPowell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
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The last frontier : $b The white man's war for civilisation in Africa
Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
Africa; Africa -- Colonization
French: Africa, 1 _et seq._;
colonial expansion, 1 _et seq._;
Congo (see _French Equatorial Africa_);
Equatorial Africa, 4;
Guinea, 4, 9;
Sahara, 5;
Somali Coast, 5;
sphere of influence, 2 _et seq._;
steamers, 11;
treatment of natives, 16, 42, 75.
German Africa, 165 _et seq._;
climate of, 180;
railways in, 179.
German colonial expansion, 166;
desire for the Congo, 176 _et seq._;
desire for Zanzibar, 164;
East Africa, 175, 185-6;
trade of, 186;
interests in Morocco, 172.
German militarism in Africa, 182, 186;
overseas banks, 168-170;
treatment of the natives, 182-4;
Southwest Africa, 175.
Germany's foreign policy, 171-2;
oversea interests, 170.
Golf in Zanzibar, 149.
Gordon, General Charles George, 203.
Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, 140.
Great Bend of the Niger, 9.
“_Groote Schuur_,” the home of Cecil Rhodes, 223.
Guano islands, 257.
Harbours: in French West Africa, 10;
in German Southwest Africa, 188.
Harems, life in, 69 _et seq._
Hay's, Sir John Drummond, speech to Sultan of Morocco, 44.
Heraklian. (See _Candia_.)
Hicks-Beach, Sir Michael, and Cecil Rhodes, 192.
Illicit diamond buying, 244.
Irrigation in: Egypt, 122;
French North Africa, 21;
South Africa, 233;
Sudan, 21, 128.
Ismail Pasha, 108 _et seq._
Italy in Africa, 80 _et seq._
Ivory Coast, 4, 9.
Ivory: market in Zanzibar, 153;
trade, 153 _et seq._
Jamestown (Saint Helena), 262-4.
Jimini (Ivory Coast), 9.
Jof (Sahara), 99 _et seq._
Johannesburg, 203, 235 _et seq._
Kabyle marriage customs, 68.
Kabyles, the, 65 _et seq._;
sale of their daughters by, 66.
Kabylia (Algeria), 65.
Kamerun, 173-6.
Kamerun, New, 173-6.
Kanem (French Sudan), 5, 9, 100.
_Kangas_, 154.
Karroo, the, 233.
Katanga District (Belgian Congo), 195-6.
Keetmanshoop (German Southwest Africa), 188.
Khalifa, the, 20, 197.
Khartoum, 138 _et seq._
King Assibi of the Gold Coast, 254.
King Kabanga of Uganda, 254.
King Minos of Crete, 282.
King Prempeh of Ashantee, 254 _et seq._
Kitchener, Lord, of Khartoum, 112, 118.
Knossos, ruins of, 282.
Kodok (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 20.
Kosti (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 198.
Kourassa (French Guinea), 9.
Krüger, President Paul, 238.
Kufra Oases, 88, 99.
Kumasi (Ashantee), 254.
Labor, demand for, in Rhodesia, 218.
Lake No, 137.
Lake Tanganyika, 187.
Lake Tchad, 9.
Language problem in South Africa, 224.
Laraiche. (See _El Araish_.)
Liberia, 3.
Libya, 80 _et seq._
Livingstone, David, finding of, by Stanley, 151.
Livingstone's discovery of Victoria Falls, 210.
Lobenguela, 211.
Lobito Bay Railway, 179, 201.
“Longwood,” residence of Napoleon, 266.
Lualaba River, 187.
Lüderitz Bay (German Southwest Africa), 188.
Madagascar, 5, 9, 12.
Mahé (Seychelles), 248 _et seq._
Majunga (Madagascar), 9.
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