98 HOME LIFE OF THE AFRICAN. 



German and other Colonies that stand for the affairs of those 

 nations in their African Colonies. 



The United States has Consular or Diplomatic Representatives 

 at the following places in Africa, under the country named after 

 each : 



The Consulates at Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said, and Suez are 

 credited to Turkey ; Tangier is credited to Morocco ; Zanzibar, Cape 

 Town, Durban, Kimberly, are credited to Great Britain; Algiers, 

 Goree-Gakar are credited to France, and a Consulate at Monrovia, 

 Liberia. 



The duties of these Consular and Diplomatic Officers are chiefly 

 commercial. 



Africa is the greatest gold producing country in the world. 

 The value of the gold production in 1908, the latest figures avail- 

 able, ^amounted to $133,361,943. Nearly all of this was mined in 

 the Transvaal. The United States is the second gold producing 

 country in the world, the mines yielding $90,435,700. 



VALUABLE TIMBER AND COSTLY FURS. 



As an agricultural producing country Africa has comparatively 

 little importance. Aside from the mineral productions, the chief 

 source of the output is from the forests in valuable timber and the 

 animals that rove the forest jungles in almost every part of the con- 

 tinent. Valuable furs come from Africa. A large percentage of 

 the world's ivory comes from Africa. 



Every reader is familiar with South Africa as a diamond 

 producing country, with the exception of a small percentage of the 

 world's supply of diamonds, Africa produces all. There are pearl 

 fisheries on many of the islands adjacent to Africa. 



Tangier is the chief city of Morocco, in the northern most 

 corner of Africa. Morocco is a Sultinate, or Empire, and is the 

 last of the independent Barbary States. It is the primitive country 

 in the sight of Europe. 



Tangier is but 35 miles south of Gibraltar, across the Straits of 

 the same place. One can look across the water from Gibraltar, 

 or from the Spanish shore, and easily see the Moroccan coast. 



