Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — Dense Population of Africa. [ARTICLE]

Dense Population of Africa.

Although we have not, nor are we like ly to have for years, any accurate statistics of the population of the interior of Africa, there is very little doubt that we have greatly underrated it Much important information has lately been gathered on the subject, especially concerning the distribution and density of that far-off land. In the great lake districts, for instance, there are territories as thickly settledaamany European states, relatively «nw areas possessing millions of people. The negro regions are by far the most populous, while the desert portions are the reverse. A French geographical society gives -.the estimated figures tt various subdivisions of that continent 85 follows: In the Soudan the population it 90,000,000, or about fifty-three persons to tbs square mile. The town of Bids, <m the Niger, for example, contains fully 90,000 inhabitants. East Africa is rated at 80,000,000, and equatorial Africa at some 40,000,000 souls. A late authority on ethnology sets the negroes as numerically 180,000,000: the Ham 1 tea, 30,000,000 * toeBantaa, 18,000,000; the Foolab, 8,000,000 ; the Nubians, 1,500,000; the Hottentot* 50,000, making.k total oT 171,650,000. These figures—only approximate -of course are considered too lcor by both' German and British geographers, the former estimating the population w high BS Rbfl— a.-