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AFRICA 



which cover the whole breadth of the South African 

 continent. The coastal hill forest rapidly dwindles to- 

 wards Benguella, and is replaced by the jungle and the 

 thorn-bush. Rubber and the Guinea palm-oil are the 

 best known resources of the rain -forest belt, but cultiva- 

 tion, which is here fairly extensive, comprehends many 

 tropical products, amongst which coffee, cotton, and 

 sugar-cane are the most important. 



FIG. 89. The King of the African Savana. Baobab tree. 



East African Mountain Region. Under this name 

 may be included the variegated landscape of terraces, 

 escarpments, hills, and mountains which border, and 

 lead on to, the South and East African plateau from the 

 eastern coast. It comprises also the rolling and hilly 

 land north of the Victoria Nyanza, the broken country 

 which skirts the eastern rift and the hills west and east 



