Excerpt from The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Record of Modern Discovery

Africa is the continent with which man - civilized man - has had perhaps the longest acquaintance, and concerning which he still knows least. It has been a mystery to him since the earliest ages, and he is only now beginning to penetrate the real heart of the secret. Probably it was on the rich soil of Egypt that the first geographer traced the first chart, and the first astronomer began to take observations of the sun, moon, and stars, and it may have been on the flood of the Nile that the first mariner dared to trust himself on the fickle bosom of the waters. Since then the searchers after knowledge have gone far afield, and learned much. New worlds have been discovered and peopled, and the whole face of nature has been changed.

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