CONTENTS 
CENTRAL AFRICA. 
CHAPTER 1. PAGE 
Savage Africa 3 
CHAPTER II. 
Explorers and their Explorations 39 
CHAPTER III. 
Missionary Enterprise 64 
JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE. 
CHAPTER I. 
The Country and its People 105 
CHAPTER II. 
History and Religion 112 
CHAPTER III. 
Manners, Arts, Customs, Manufactures, and Household Tradi- 
tions 123 
CHAPTER IV. 
Language, Literature, and Proverbial Lore 133 
CHAPTER V. 
The New Civilization, Laws, and Commerce, of Japan • . . .136 
CHAPTER VL 
Sacred Shrines, and their Devotees 149 
