Identifier: africaoftoday00good (find matches)
Title: Africa of to-day
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Goodrich, Joseph King, 1876-1948
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e total maritime tradeof Morocco for the year 1909 (the latest for whichstatistics are readily available) amounted to £4,600,000,an increase of £800,000 over the previous year: butGreat Britains share in this trade increased propor-tionately more than did that of any other EuropeanPower. France showed an increase of £90,000, GreatBritain £430,000. This extreme northern strip of Africa has been mostappropriately called The Land of Winter Sunbeams,and it is yearly attracting more travellers who seek formildness of climate, picturesque scenery, and varietywith opportunity of seeing something of a civilisationthat is still strange, although it is fast becoming Euro-peanised and commonplace. Or, if there is a desire tocombine with much of indolence a little of energeticactivity, in the form of mountain climbing, there is theAtlas range, that attains its greatest height in Moroccoand stretches off to the east, gradually becoming lowerand lower until it runs out to nothing in the extreme
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Photo. Underwood b° Underwood, N. Y. The Palace at Fez The Sultan arriving to receive the tribes at a jeast NORTHERN AFRICA 39 northeast of Tunis. There yet remain some very toler-able peaks to be conquered, some of them betweenthirteen and fourteen thousand feet in elevation, possiblymore; but the attempt to reach those summits is stillattended with risk because of the turbulent natives, asfond of backsheesh as are the Corsican brigands of ransom,and because these mountains are infested with danger-ous wild beasts. These things must make the would-bemountain climber give careful heed to his plans ere heventures. It is more consistent with our own ideas to limitthe Atlas range to the chain which begins in the ex-treme southwest of Morocco, back of Cape Non, thatso long said thus far and no farther to the earlyPortuguese adventurers, and extends to Tunis, excludingthe lower hills which are sometimes included in the Atlasrange and go on into Tripoli. These true Atlas moun-tains, except

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