The African Climate

As for the olimate, it te no worse tlian íhat íound elsewhere ín tropic lands. The heat is net so great as Ín India or as it is sometimes in New York in snmmer. Fortunately, the coast belt on both sietes of África, wliore the heat is greatest, andwhere tlie climate is most uahealthj-, is iiari-ow. In four hours a ráilway train at OTtlinary speed ivould enable us Do cross it, and so avoid the debilitating temperature. _ Aicendlng the sides of tlxe coaet rango by the same mease oí eonveyance, we shouíd in fcwo hours reach a rolling plain which gradually rlses In height from 2,500 to 3,500 fee f ahove the sea. Here tlie climate is sensibly cooler, and the white 111,-iu can safèiy work six: hours of fho day in the op? -without fear oí sunstrolce, though he must not couint on imimitiny from rever. In frotm ten to twelve hours the traveler by train would meet another steep rte, and wouUI find himself from 5,000 to 8,000 feet ftbove the sea, on tlie broad central plateau of the conUiu'iit, which varíes from 600 to 1,000 miles across. It is in this sectioh that the great lakes snowy mountatns and tallest hills are found. Here we have cold nights and a hot Bun -niien the Bktee are not clouded, ïoutrli tho air in the shade i.s freunoiUly cool enough for an overcoat ; Baad it is on this Immense upland that tho white man, wlien eompelled by circumetances. may find a, homo.- Henry M. Stanley, in ih? FetwTiary Century.