Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — The Dark Continent. [ARTICLE]

The Dark Continent.

The population of Africa, according to the latest and most reliable estimates, is given at 163,000,000, or fourteen inhabitants to the square mile, while the population of the three Americas id givep at121,7i3,000, off eight inhabitants to the square mile. It must be remembered that while explorers tell us of large districts in Africa that aTe scantly peopled, there are also vast regions densely populated of which but few persons have ever heard. It may in tact be said that ohly the fringe of the Dark Continent has as yet been leached after 1,000 years of intermittent exploration.