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Identifier: africaitsinhabit02recl (find matches)
Title: Africa and its inhabitants
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Depths. 0 to 660Feet. G60 Feet andupwards. 120 Miles. zones. The greatest extremes occur during the dry season, when the intense heatof the day is followed by comparatively cool nights, caused by the harmattanblowing from the uplands of the interior. The harmattan is mostly accompaniedby dense fogs, which are generally dissipated during the morning, but which attimes last, like those of England, all day long. Normally the atmospheric currentssucceed each other with the regularity of clockwork. The land-breeze prevails in
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KKOOMEN. ^_;^— J-VJ LIBERIA. 217 the morning, following a moan direction from north to south, and is replaced iuthe afternoon by sea breezes from the west. The Liberian climate is considered higlily dangerous for immigrants, but stillless so than that of Sierra-Leone. The whites have a settled belief that a residenceof over three years would be fatal to Europeans, who especially dread the dryseason and marsh fever. Most maladies cause a certain decomposition of tlioblood, which is expressed by the local sajring that the prick of a needle first drawsa drop of water and then one of blood. Even Negroes from the United States areliable to marsh fever, from which the aborigines are exempt. Flora ok Liheria. The Liberian flora, coming within the Sudanese zone, differs little from thatof Sierra-Leone, which it rivals in the wealth of its vegetation and the extent andbeauty of its woodlands. Even the dunes are clothed with plants, such as theconvolvulus with its flowery wreaths, and the dwa

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