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Rh wild animals into the holes. Elephants, antelopes, and other game are taken in great numbers. In the winter this hot continent furnishes comfortable homes for many of the birds of passage that are driven out of Europe by the cold.



For Recitation.—Of what race is Africa the home? What are some of the most useful trees of Africa? Name some of the animals of Africa.

1. Egypt is the most interesting country in Africa. It was once the most highly Civilized part of the earth. The people who lived there more than three thousand years ago built pyramids and temples so grand that they have always been among the wonders of the world.

How is Africa separated from Europe? "What ocean and sea are on the east? What ocean is on the west? What sea is on the north? Of what sea is the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb the entrance? Where is the Gulf of Guinea?

Name the most northern cape of Africa. The most western. What noted cape is near the most southern point of Africa? Where is Cape Guardafui (gwar-dahfwe ' )? "What large island is east of Africa? In what ocean is it? What separates it from Africa? It is a French colony.

What country occupies the northeastern corner of Africa? What river flows through Egypt? Into what sea does the Nile flow? What city is at the mouth of the river?

Where are the Barbary states? What two countries are west of Tunis? Where is Fezzan? To what country does it belong? Where are the Atlas mountains?

What islands are west of Morocco? What great desert is south of the Barbary states?

What region is south of the Sahara? What river flows through the Sudan and enters the Gulf of Guinea (ghin'-ne)? Where is Lake Tchad? Where is Sokoto? Timbuktu? Kuka? Where is Sierra Leone? Liberia? Gold Coast? Belgian Kongo?

What great river crosses the equator twice? What country does it flow through? Where is Lake Victoria? What river rises in this lake? Where is Lake Tanganyika (tan-gan-yee'-kah)? Lake Nyassa?

What British possession is in the southern extremity of Africa? What river crosses the northern part of Cape of Good Hope? What desert is north of Cape of Good Hope? Where is the Orange Free State? The Transvaal? Natal? Rhodesia? Lourenço Marquez? British East Africa?

Where is Mount Kilimanjaro (kil-i-man-ja-ro ' ). ''This is the highest peak on the continent. It is always covered with snow. What country is northwest of Somaliland (so-mah'-le-land'')?

In what direction is Cape Town from Cairo? In what direction does the Nile flow?

Is more of Africa north or south of the equator? In what zone is most of Africa? What African countries lie wholly within the North Temperate zone? Which lie wholly within the South Temperate? In which zones is Egypt?

Egypt is one of the finest wheat regions on the globe. You may remember that when there was a famine in the country where Jacob lived, he sent his sons down to Egypt to buy wheat there. The country is just as fertile now as then.

The fertility of Egypt is very curious, because not a drop of rain falls on all the land except near the coast of the Mediterranean. What makes this rainless region so rich?

Every year in the summer months the Nile overflows its banks, and the country is like a great lake. After a while the water subsides. The fields are left covered with mud, and the farmers sow their seed upon this.

But where does the water come from that makes the