ENCAMPMENT OF BEDOUIN ARABS. Frontispiece.
PART ONE.
GLIMPSES OF THE DARK CONTINENT.
CHAPTER I.
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW.
The name "Dark Continent" has been most aptly applied to Africa. Little was known of its geographical features until within the last twenty-five or thirty years. Some knowledge had been gained of its native tribes, but this was very indefinite, and in many ways unreliable.