CONTENTS. vii 



CHAPTER VII. 



Climate — Mineral and Vegetable Productions — Animals — People — Explora- 

 tions — Livingstone's Brilliant Work — Stanley's Discoveries 85 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Africa a Country Without Home Government — Liberian Republic — American 



Consulates — Morocco — Algiers — Tunis — Egypt — Cairo — Cape Town — Cape 



of Good Hope — Kimberly — Home Life in Africa — Naming the Baby — 



Ambitious Boyhood — Immature Child Wives 97 



CHAPTER IX. 



Several Notable Men Accompanied Col. Roosevelt — Scientific Experts Pro- 

 pose the Animals Secured for the Smithsonian Institution — Roosevelt's 

 Expedition — Roosevelt and the Missionaries — Africa the Last of the 

 Heathen Countries Invaded by the Missionaries — Christianity in North 

 Africa Long Before Christ iii 



CHAPTER X. 

 Origin of the American Negro — British Slave Industry — Liberia the Amer- 

 ican Colony in Africa — 24,000 American Born Negroes Have Gone to 

 Liberia — The Troglodytes of Africa — Pygmies in Central Africa — Who 

 Are the Boers? — The Diamond Mines of Kimberly — Abyssinia and Its 

 Ancient Christian Faith — Ivory, How Obtained and Used — Ostrich Farms 

 in Africa and California 123 



CHAPTER XL 



Three Lions with Three Bullets — Wildebeest or Gnu was Roosevelt's First 

 Victim — Son's Expedition Without Father — Smallpox Breaks Out in the 

 Camp — Hunt Delayed by Missing Baggage 147 



CHAPTER XII. 



Col. Roosevelt a Remarkable Hunter — All Records Broken — Bags a Bull Rhi- 

 noceros — Shoots a Giraffe in the Neck at 400 Yards — Col. Roosevelt Kills 

 His First Elephant — Bags a Leopard and Captures the Leopard's Cubs 

 Alive — Arrives at the Ju Ja Ranch — Col. Roosevelt Delighted 159 



CHAPTER XIIL ' 



Africa a World of Surprises and Wonders — Journeys of Livingstone — An 

 Ancestry of Sturdy Scotch Qualities — David's Factory Life — Eager Thirst 

 for Knowledge — Tending the Loom, with One Eye on His Book — A Lover 

 of Heroic Deeds — Resolves to Become a Medical Missionary in China — 

 Departure for Africa — Encounters with a Ferocious Lion — Livingstone's 



