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Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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namon,and since 1776 cloves, the nutmeg, and cocoa; while thehealthy climate contributes much to the well-being of thevarious races by which it is inhabited. Mauritius is, on the other hand, famous for thewondrous beauty of the landscape, surpassing even thatof Tahiti in the South Pacific. Here, as in Reunion, thechief staple is sugar, though rice, coffee, indigo, cotton, amispices are also successfully cultivated. In the wood*, thehaunts of many animals, grow several valuable trees, andthe thoroughly tropical character of the island is shown asmuch in its flora as in its fauna. Still we here miss, asin Madagascar, the larger animals of the African con-tinent. The population is composed of the same elements as 508 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. iii laWuiion; it amounts to probably some 340,000, onethird of whom are occupied with agricultural pursuits. There are only two towns worthy of special mention—the capital, Port Louis, with 26,000 inhabitants, andMahebourg or Grand Port.
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GENERAL SCHEME OF RACES AND LINGUISTIC FAMILIES \ £ ! (Amlh-Hmruh X. (hast jl ^ I SemiteiffrnyariiicBrJ Abyssinia.S g • Hamites (Egyptian Br. I Egypt£ °. j Haniites (Libyan. Br. W.SaharaSBarbary States l Hamites I Ethiopian Br.) N-E- <tE. o Fulahs and Xubas Sudan diNub&a. i- 2 Negroes Proper,. Sudan & Upper J 2e z g Bantus tfw« 6°N.Lat.Sout)iwards to the Cape Z3q i Hottentots .... ...ejcfrcme.IWainter g ■ j Bushmen .JialahaiiDesert * Malays Madagascar For full explanation see A/jpendLrand. Synoptical Tabte pp. 509. 554- ETHNOLOGICAL PHILOLOGICAL MAPA F RI C A Showing the General Distribution of the INDIGENOUS RACES And the Position of the various LINGUISTIC FAMILIESStanford* G^off, .*.--. APPENDIX. I. THE AFRICAN RACES PHILOLOGICALLYCLASSIFIED. By A. H. Keane. 1. Language the best Basis for the Classification of Putces. The constant allusions made by the author to the variousraces at present occupying the African Continent have neces-sarily been of too disconnected

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