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THE LAST FRONTIER
BY E. ALEXANDER POWELL
THE LAST FRONTIER
GENTLEMEN ROVERS
THE END OF THE TRAIL
FIGHTING IN FLANDERS
THE ROAD TO GLORY
VIVE LA FRANCE!
ITALY AT WAR
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
“It approached at the speed of a galloping horse—a great fleecy, yellowish-brown cloud which looked for allthe world like the smoke of some gigantic conflagration.”
THE LAST FRONTIER
THE WHITE MAN'S WAR
FOR CIVILISATION IN AFRICA
BY
E. ALEXANDER POWELL, F.R.G.S.
LATE OF THE AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE IN EGYPT
WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MAP
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1919
Copyright, 1912, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
To
MY CHEERFUL, UNCOMPLAINING
AND COURAGEOUS COMRADE ON THE
LONG AFRICAN TRAIL
MY WIFE
The unknown landsare almost all discovered. Thework of the explorer and the pioneer is nearly finished,and ere long their stern and hardy figures will havepassed from the world's stage, never to return. In theArgentine, in Mexico, and in Alaska store clothes andstiff hats are replacing corduroys and sombreros; thepack-mule is giving way to the motor-car. The earthhas but one more great prize with which to lure theavaricious and the adventurous: Africa—mysterious,opulent, alluring—beckons and calls.
The conditions which exist in Africa to-day closelyparallel those which were to be found, within the memoryof many of us, beyond the Mississippi. In NorthAfrica the French are pushing their railways across thedesert in the face of Arab opposition, just as we pushedour railways across the desert in the face of Indian oppositionfort