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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. 
