Excerpt from The Story of Africa and Its Explorers, Vol. 1 At this moment Africa is the one quarter of the world which has not been made too much of for new-comers to make a little more. Asia is occupied. America 'is for the Americans. Europe is overflowing. Even Australia, in spite of the space it occupies upon the map, has little land fit for cultivation which is not already owned. 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.