Within the period approximately fifteen years the continent of Africa was a scene of extensive

Within the period approximately fifteen years the continent of Africa was a scene of extensive division. In the beginning of that period the quantity of the African territory which was subject to the European control, was rather small. British have been fixed in Southern Africa, and had property along coasts in other place mainly in the west. Frenchmen have been fixed in Algeria and in Senegal. Portugueses had their ancient settlements in Mozambique and Lower Guinea. Morocco in the northwest and Abyssinia in the northeast were more or less known governments which were independent. Egypt in the extreme northeast, with the dependent property stretched along Nile in a far interior of continent, was also more or less known government which possessed though it nominally depended on Turkey. But in other place, except in several other places which the European power operates, the whole continent can be described as being in its original state of wildness or semiwildness. No government existed somewhere which was or is salutary or steady. Slavish movement was available in a considerable quantity everywhere.
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THE EUROPEAN SPHERES OF INFLUENCE IN AFRICA