Excerpt from War in South Africa and the Dark Continent From Savagery to Civilization: The Strange Story of a Weird World From the Earliest Ages to the Present, Including the War With the Boers; Embracing the Explorations and Settlements, Wars and Conquests, Peoples and Governments, Resources and Produces With her immensity of natural resources, richness of mineral wealth, valuable forests and' fertile lands, together with her unsurpassed facili ties for commerce, Africa will be the haven of coming emigration, the Mecca of future industrial adventure. Here will be the home of genera tions yet unborn, who will build mighty empires, bulwarks Qf liberty and enlightenment, that shall mold the thought and lead the progress of the world, as did the ancient empire on the banks of the Nile. The pioneer movement to this end has been going on for four centuries. Slowly and stubbornly, over hard fought fields, the savagery and gloom of the benighted continent have receded before the onward march of the pioneer as he held his way into the interior from the Cape of Good Hope. Section after section have been wrested from the savages by people from many lands, until a considerable portion of South Africa may be said to be under the rule of civilized government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.