Word: africa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...series of public lectures by prominent engineers under the auspices of the Engineering Society will be given Friday in the Fogg Museum. Col. H. G. Prout, who is to speak on "General Gordon and the Soudan," was one of "Chineses" Gordon's right hand men in Egypt and Africa, and saw a great deal of hard service and fighting. He was at one time governor of the Province of the Equator under the Khedive, and took the first steamboat to the Victoria Nyanza under great difficulties. The address cannot fail to prove interesting. Chief Engineer Melville of the Navy...
...sent a geological expedition into Central Africa...
...Coolidge delivered an interesting lecture on Africa yesterday afternoon in Sever 11. He spoke in part as follows...
When the history of the present century is written, one of the most important events to describe will be the colonization of Africa and its division among the great European nations. In spite of the large size of this continent, very little is known about it, and few settlements have been made. This is partly explained by the unhealthfulness of the climate, and by the fact that the large rivers are closed to navigation by rapids near their mouths...
...nations of Africa are little civilized, and are too lazy to work much. Europeans can not live long in the climate, and so an attempt has been made to introduce Chinese and Hindoo laborers to carry on the necessary industrial work...