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GROWING WEALTH OF AFRICA. 
Ill 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. 
