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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ed to be the source, or one of thesources, of the Nile, at least many geog-raphers so regarded it. But this notionwas dispelled by the explorations ofLivingstone, who demonstrated by actualtravel and observation the true relations 624 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of the lake to the interior water systemsof Africa. In addition to those fresh-water bodiesalready mentioned, we may refer to lakesMoero and Bangweolo, the latter of Other lake which lies wholly within waters; vast- ^e native dominion of theity of Africa. Upper Zambesi, but northof the Lokinga mountains; and the for-mer on the borders of that country and is the great fact which impresses itselfupon the mind of travelers. The re-sources of such a country lie open in ex-haustless abundance. The wonder isthat the civilized races, so eager to ex-tend their adventures and expend theirenergies on remote parts of the globe athousand times less promising than these-African dominions, should not longsince have turned those same energies to
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ON THE SHORES OF TANGANYIKA. the Congo Free State. Both of theselakes have importance with respect tothe singular geography of Central Africa,and with more especial regard to thefuture civilization of the interior of thecontinent. It will thus be seen that Central Africa,under the dominion of the native races,and long ignorantly supposed to be onlywaste and uninhabitable country, is, inreality, one of the vastest and most fer-tile regions on the globe. This, indeed, the exploration and development of th&region before us. Our wonder on this account is height-ened by the fact that not nations, not peoples, but individuals, The Dark Conti-rather, have at last, by their byindividulialmost unaided and un- enterprise,patronized abilities and daring, enteredand revealed the true character and in-finite resources of Equatorial Africa.This work has been almost wholly ac-complished within the memory of men

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