Excerpt from Raw Products of the World, Vol. 1: Africa The area of Africa, including the islands adjacent to the coast, is given as square miles. The population is approximately natives and European colonists located mostly on the fringe of sea-coast and around the inland rivers. Since the abolition of the slave trade and reduction of tribal wars and of plagues and epi demies, largely through the agency of missionaries, the blacks are multiplying faster than the Caucasians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.