Brown, Robert, 1842-1895, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Cassell · leaf 31
r heads, which demonstrates that the peoples of that continent passed from the stone to the iron age without any of the intermediate bronze or copper stages which in most other countries mark the progress of civilisation. It is thei’efore evident that there are many links in the history of Africa… … have fallen by the way, yet only a small percentage have perished at the hands of the people. Australia and America, on the other hand, have been rapidly ransacked, in spite of the hostility of the savages, who in a month’s warfare in the New World have often killed more whites than have perished…
Africa -- Discovery and exploration · Africa -- Colonization
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