Delta? How is Alexandria situated? Where is Damietta? What town west of Damietta, on the Mediterranean? R. Where is the town of Suez ? Siout? In what part of Egypt are the ruins of Thebes? What town on the coast of the Red Sea ? What desert south of Egypt? What is the size of the largest pyramid? It is 460 feet high, and covers thirteen acres of ground. Ancient historians say that 100,000 men were engaged twenty years in its construction. In what part of Egypt are the cataracts of the Nile? S. In what part are the pyramids ? On which side of the Nile are the ruins of Thebes? In what latitude is Cairo? What isthmus in the north-eastern part? Between what two seas is it? NUBIA. How is Nubia bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? In what part is Dongola? Sennaar? What desert east of the Nile ? Which is farther north, Old or New-Dongola ? Where is the town of Sennaar? Where is Shendy, or Chendi? What country south-east of Nubia? ABYSSINIA. How is Abyssinia bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? In what part is Massuah? What lake in the interior? What strait on the east? How wide is it? Twenty miles. In what part is Axum? For what noted? For its antiquities. It was the ancient capital. What other important towns in Abyssinia? Adowa and Antalo. SAHARA, OR GREAT DESERT. Q. What is the extent of this desert? A. From the Atlantic on the west, to the Nile on the east, and from the Barbary States on the north, to Soudan on the south. It is 3,000 miles long, and 1,000 wide. Q. Describe ita appearance? A. Its surface is composed of sand and gravel, withut vegetation. It is like the bottom of a dried up sea, with here and there a few fertile spots, called oases. From what city in Soudan do caravans start to cross the desert ? In what part is Agdass? Fezzan? Tibesty? Tisheet? What is Tisheet? Where is Angela? Where is Tuat? What cape forms the most western point of the desert? What cape north of cape Blanco ? Barbas. Where is cape Bajador? What cluster of islands north-west of cape Bajador? What country south-west of the desert? SENEGAMBIA. How is Senegambia bounded? What is the general course of the rivers of Senegambia, and where do they empty? Which is the most northern river? What town at its mouth? Where is the Gambia River? What town at its mouth? What river next south of the Gambia? What cape between the mouth of the Gambia and the Grand? In what part is Timboo? How is Senegambia divided? Into several small states. In what part is Bambouk ? For what noted? Its gold. What three nations have settlements along the coast? En., Por., Fr. What colony in the south-western part on the coast? SIERRA LEONE. To what nation does this colony belong? What is the capital, and how situated? Q. When, and for what purpose, was it established? A. In 1787, for the purpose of suppressing the slave trade, and civilizing the interior of Africa. On what river is Freetown? The Rochelle. What village south of Freetown? York. What bay south of York? Yawry. What colony on the coast south-east of Sierra Leone? LIBERIA. How is Liberia bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? Q. When, and by whom, was this colony established? A. In 1820, by the American Colonization Society, to furnish a settlement for the free blacks and emanci pated slaves of the United States. On what river is Millsburg? What cape near Monrovia ? Name the principal settlements on the coast ? Marshall, Edina, Buchanan and Harper. What cape in the southern part? Where is Grain Coast? Which way from Grain is Ivory Coast? What is the present condition of the colony? Very flourishing, and is exerting a happy influence on the neighboring tribes. What country east of Liberia? UPPER GUINEA. How is Upper Guinea bounded? What range of mountains on the north? What river separates Upper from Lower Guinea? In what part is the kingdom of Ashantee? What is the capital ? C. Where is Ivory coast? Where is the kingdom of Dahomey? What is the capital? A. Where is the kingdom of Benin? What is the capital? B. On what coast is Elmina? What two capes on the Gold Coast? Cape Three Points and Cape Coast-Castle. What country next south-east of Upper Guinea? LOWER GUINEA. How is Lower Guinea bounded? Name the principal countries in Lower Guinea ? In what part is Biafra? What gulf or bay south-west of Biafra? What island in the bight or bay of Biafra? To what country does Fernando Po belong? Sp. Where is Prince's Island? What two islands south-east of Prince's? To whom do these three islands belong? Por. Where is Loango? north-west of Loango on the coast? What town south-east? Cabenda. What river separates Loango from Congo? What division south-east of Loango? What is the capital? What town What is the capital of Congo? What mountains west of Congo? Crystal. What division south of Congo? What river flows through Congo? The Ambriz. What is the capital of Angola? What river on the south between Angola and Benguela? What is the capital of Benguela? western part? Negro. What bay? Benguela ? What cape in the south- CIMBEBAS. How much seacoast has Cimbebas? 500 miles. Why are there no towns or settlements? The whole coast is a desert, with but little fresh water. What two capes on the coast? Frio and Cross. What bay on the south? SOUTH AFRICA. Q. What are the divisions of South Africa? A. Cape Colony, Caffraria and Natal. The northern portion is inhabited by different tribes. Where is the Orange River? What part is inhabited by the Hottentots? By the Boshuanas? The Zulus? W. Where is Lattakoo, or Kruman? Which is the most southern division? CAPE COLONY. How is Cape Colony bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? Q. When, and by whom, was Cape Colony settled? What mountains in Cape Colony? In what part are the principal settlements? What bay south of Cape Town? Table. Where is Cape of Good Hope? What is the most southern cape of Africa? In what part is Georgetown? What town in the south-eastern part? G. What bay on the west? St. H. Under what government is Cape Colony? G. B. What division north-east of Cape Colony? What was formerly the extent of Caffraria, and what is it now? It formerly extended from Cape Colony to Mozambique; but frequent wars between the colonists and the native Caffres, have reduced the country to a district of about 160 miles on the coast. Where, and what is Natal? It is the middle portion of what was formerly called Caffraria. It is a British settlement, extending about 200 miles on the coast. What is the chief town? D'Urban, or Port Natal? What tribe occupies the country north of Natal? The Zoolu tribe. What What bay east of Zoolu country? Delagoa Bay. river between this country and Mozambique? The Manice、 MOZAMBIQUE. How is Mozambique bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? What bay south of Mozambique? What large river runs through the centre of Mozambique? situated at its mouth? Where is Sofala? On what river is What town on the Zambezi north-west of Sena? Sena? What town whom does Mozambique belong? To the Portuguese. To ZANGUEBAR. How is Zanguebar bounded? What does this country embrace? Several states, among which, Magadoxa, Melinda, Mombas and Quiloa are the principal. In what part is Quiloa? Melinda? What town on the coast of Melinda in ruins? M. |