The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa - E. Alexander Powell



CHAPTER
[I.]	The Third Empire	1
[II.]	The Passing of the Peacock's Tail	27
[III.]	Sirens of the Sands	56
[IV.]	The Italian “White Man's Burden”	80
[V.]	The Land of Before-and-After	108
[VI.]	In Zanzibar	143
[VII.]	The Spiked Helmet in Africa	165
[VIII.]	“All Aboard for Cape Town!”	190
[IX.]	The Last Stand of the Pioneer	205
[X.]	The Country of Big Things	223
[XI.]	The Forgotten Isles	248
	[Index]	287

ILLUSTRATIONS

[A Sandstorm Passing Over Khartoum]	Frontispiece
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[“Through Dim Bazaars where Turbaned Shopkeepers Squat Patiently in their Doorways”]	17
[The Troglodyte Town of Medenine, Southern Tunisia]	26
[Some Sirens of the Sands]	58
[Jewish Women in the Cemetery of Tunis]	70
[An Arab Bride Going to Her Husband]	79
[Sunrise on the Great Sands]	87
[Work and Play in Black Man's Africa]	110
[The Saviour of the Sudan and Some of Those he Saved]	118
[Strange People from Innermost Africa]	129
[The Gateway to East Africa]	146
[Arab Women of Zanzibar]	156
[The Hand of the War Lord in German Africa]	187
[Railroading Through a Jungle]	188
[More Work for the Pioneer]	219
[The Prison Place of a Great Emperor]	268
[Map of Africa, Showing Railways and Spheres of Influence]	At end of volume

THE LAST FRONTIER