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Show T1IK l'Ol'LLVTION 01' AilMC.W OVKB TlinnE 1ICDBEU MIIJJO.S. I'TOI'IX OS THE DARK I COXTlSKNT. AnJ under tlie name of Hie Imle-ixudent Imle-ixudent Stated Corgo itspvern-niLutuaa itspvern-niLutuaa orgauiasl after the most at.proed methods of llelgian ad-lulnl-traUon, and it entered fully tsiuliipol into the family of natious. There Is within its area which, as said, is thirty-three times Uiut of Helgium, a poil3tionof4 0 whites, aboSt one-half Stale ofliclals and employes, and the estimatttl num-terof num-terof natives within lis lorutrs t? about 40.UX.01it; and In the whole (ingo Isisin U estimated at a'out oti.OWHHl. ,, Africa i about time liuie the area of Kuroj-. or li.iRW.KrJ K,u3re miles, and tome writtrs iliHmte it to contain about an ujual )Jila tion ."Kii.OiJO.KOiKHiLs. The enormous enorm-ous trade developing theie comes mainly from the narrow stlvsge which tejarates the mountains from thete.1. It is a great lslu nu-jiOsed nu-jiOsed of plateau-, giaJualli ascending ascend-ing to TlKJ'J feet at some of the central cen-tral lakes. It has four great river systems ea tlie e-t the Congo, Mi ond only to tlw Amaam iu the volume vol-ume of its waters, and the Niger, on the north the Nile; on nu Hist tiie Ziuili-M. These riMrs once formed va-t internal sis, whkii, linall;- breaking througii the mountain moun-tain lartiem, have descinded bj cataratts and canyons on Hie ocean, leaving great areas of rich di-iosd-of wonderful feitllity. Furum Jur Juik. |