Show AFRICAN CLIMATE on the central plateau it la cool and not unhealthy As for the climate it is no worse than that found elsewhere in tropic lands the heat ie not so great as in india or as it is sometimes in new york in summer fortunately writes henry M stanley in century the coast belt on both sides of africa where the heat is greatest and where the climate is most unhealthy is narrow in four hours a railway train at ordinary speed would enable us to cross it and so avoid the debilitating temperature ascending the sides of the coast range by the same means of conveyance we should in two hours reach a rolling plain which rises in heidht from 2500 to feet above the sea here the climate is sensibly cooler and the white man can safely work six hours of the day in the open without fear of sunstroke though he must not count on immunity from fever in from ten to twelve hours the traveler by train would meet another rise and would find from to feet above the sea on the broad central plateau of the continent which varies from to 1000 miles across it is in this section that the great lakes snowy mountains and tallest hills are found here we have cold nights and a hut sun when the skies are not clouded though the air in the shade is frequently cool enough for an overcoat and it is on this immense upland that the white man when compelled by cir may find a home |