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that an “iron age”’ is not of itself to be regarded as a guarantee of an 
advanced order of civilization. ‘The effect of the use of iron imple- 
ments is but one of the many interesting problems arising from the 
study of the Dark Continent, all of which render an ethnological collec- 
tion from any of her people a matter of great educational value. 
During the past year Mr. Douglas visited Barotse and Bechuana- 
land. As may be seen from the map, these territories occupy the entire 
central portion of that part of Africa lying between the southern borders 
of the Congo Free State and the Orange river. ‘This region is cut into 
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two parts by the Zambezi river, well known for its beautiful Victoria 
Falls. All the interior of South Africa has been for some centuries the 
home of a large division of the so-called ‘‘ Bantu” peoples, the dominant 
negro race. It is generally agreed that the Bantu originated somewhere 
near the head-waters of the Nile. As they increased in numbers, they 
migrated southward and eastward, dominating the whole continent 
from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. ‘The Bantu horde which 
rolled out from the north into the valley of the Zambezi and into the 
