[123] Treitschke (trysh´ke), German historian and bitter enemy of Britain. Born 1834, died 1896.
[124] Great lake of equatorial Africa, 26,000 square miles in area, discovered by Captain Speke in 1858, and circumnavigated by Stanley in 1875 and 1889.
[125] Lake lying south-west of Victoria Nyanza, 13,000 square miles in area. Its only outlet is to the Congo.
[126] Spelt in many British maps, Cameroons.
[127] Fulas or Fulahs, the ruling native race in Nigeria, French Sudan, Kamerun, etc.
[128] Near Atakpame, at the head of the railway which runs north from Lomé for a hundred miles.
[129] Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902), for nearly a quarter of a century the most powerful man in South Africa. Rhodesia was named after him.
[130] Born 1850, died 1894. Scottish novelist and poet. All boys and girls should read his Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, and Catriona. Many of his verses are in the earlier books of the Highroads of Literature.
[131] See Stevenson's A Footnote to History.
[132] With the exception of Guam, the largest, which belongs to the United States.