CHAPTER VIII. 
NATIVES OF AFRICA. 
What Specimens of Humanity Roosevelt Met in Africa—Black and White—Arabs, Negroes 
and Other Races—Hottentots and Bushmen—Speke’s and Burton’s Discoveries. 
W HEN Roosevelt threw himself into the midst of the Dark Con¬ 
tinent he found himself among a variety of races entirely dif¬ 
ferent from all the many nationalities he had governed in his 
own native land. Most advanced in civilization are the Arabs, who 
belong to the Semitic stock, and form the main portion of the population 
of Egypt, Algeria, Tunis and part of Abyssinia, but owing to their com¬ 
mercial instincts are found in smaller or larger settlements all over the 
AFRICAN KRAALS OR ROUND HUTS. 
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