96 GROWING WEALTH OF AFRICA. 



In the past few years our knowledge of this part of Africa has 

 been rapidly increased through the efforts of travelers, missionaries, 

 and commercial agents, and it is surprising at how many points 

 towns have sprung up and the great amount of commerce that is 

 being carried, both domestic and foreign. On the Nile there are 

 many freight and passenger steamers, as well as sail boats. 



On the Upper Congo there are now a fleet of steamers, on 

 Tanganyika three, on Nyassa two, while there are a number of 

 short railways and practically a survey has been made for a con- 

 tinental railroad from Alexandria to Cape Town. Stanley's latest 

 mission to Africa (1887-89), ostensibly to rescue Emin Bey, 

 appears to have been a great diplomatic move for conquest. 



