| Show THE population OF AFRICA and under the name dame of the independent state of congo its government was organized after the most aD approved proved methods of belgian administration and it entered fully equipped into the family of nations there is within its area which as said is thirty three times that tha i of belgium a population of whites about one half state officials and employed emp loyes and the estimated number of natives within its borders Is ie about and in the whole congo basin is estimated ata at a out africa is about three times the area of europe or square miles and some writers estimate it to contain about an equal population souls the enormous ou trade strade developing there comes mainly from the narrow selvage which separates the mountains from the sea it is a great basin composed of plateaus gradually ascending to feet at some of the central lakes it has four great river systems on the west the congo second only to the amazon in the volume of its waters and the niger on the north the nile on the east tile the these rivers once formel vast internal seas which finally breaking through the moun tain barriers have descended by cataracts and canyons on the ocean leaving great areas of rien deposits de posts of wonderful fertility forum for june |
