Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-16

1copyrieht. 1907. by Frank O. Car
penter)
KH ELIL1.A. Spanish North Afriea'
INA i am in wNat is about the last
' OF spaIn's colonial possessions.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turtles. she owned the best part OF the
new world. Site had ths cream Of
North America. Il we incledc the
Louisiana purchase, which We got by
way oe France. and she had almost the
whole OF south A,Icrlca excepting
Brazil. The best OF che Weri Indies
we're hers. CorteA poured 'ta treas
,tres Of Montezuma into her royal cot
fers and Pl2arro. shoeins his horses
with solid silver. robbed The lncas OF
Peru of their gold by the shlpoad'
The Philippines added to the5s sources
Of wealth. ana for lonS time Two
srea, golden streams rolled across tha
Atlantic and Pacific TO benefit the
STANDARDS. Spain Naa then the rlch.
cst OF all the powers in her coiopiai
.o,ssesslons Today by mtsmGange-
,aent and oppression she has beco,ne
me poorest and since her war Eill
rs when she lost Cuba, Porto hlNo
and the Philippines, there faYe oeeh
none so poor 90 do aer reverence
SPANISH AFRICA.
indeed. al me land which sp@7 bus
lan outside rer own boundaries is ilt
Africa. and wen here ner possessions
are the iag-tag and bob tai % the
continent Tney may cover perhaps
two OF three hundred tl'on 'and square
miles. bnt they are al desert san1
or fever swQmps and the tillaDif ialHA
suitable for white men whifh tnty
contain are not az big as az oni,H,
county. and their total populatloil Hi,'
burdIv eauaI that Of washington CITY
N contrast with this tho other Sreat
no,vers OF Ecropo have been quietly
eabhIlug Ip the fat rings OF inns
mighty continent France has the bis
cest share. ir We include the island OF
Madagascar. She has almost 5000
square miles. or more tnsn one third
of all Afg'ica = vas, dcai OF her Ter
rtto-v however. IS ~ the Desert OF
Sahara It is made up OF stone anu
Sand which might form good building
,,iatrelals. but which are of no value
where they lie Great Britain comes
next among the national land owners.
sine has close to another third of the
continent. if we consider Egypt and
SIS Soudnn as para of her possess
sions. Germany has not quite one
eleventh Of the whole and Portugal
almost one thirteenth, while Tureky
itself. in Tripoll has about as much
land as Spain.
WHAT SPAIN OWNS.
BEFORE I describe the -forsaken
.not where / now am. l would like TO
iell you lust whGt Spain has in africa
she owns the Island of Fernando 10
and small tract on the mainland on
the Gulf of Guinea. Her country there
contains. believe. about 5000 square
miles, or a little more than the state
az Massachusetts, The land Is sWampy
and so unheathful that IL mas pc
come known as the White Mans
craze" II is covered with a lux
,,riant vegetation and produces some
India rubber and palm oil. The oniy
Foreigners there are IL few Spanish
French and English merchants. inc
natives are among the most degfaueu
~ the Africans They are negroes OF
the lowest type, and slavery IS COM
mon. Fernando Po Itself has convict
and the criminals seh'
there seldom return.
North az the Gulf of Guinea, be-
tween Morocco and the French Sou
dan. Spain has n wide strip of land
which is ruled by the governor OF the
Canary Islands. 1t stretches for sew
eraI hundred miles along the Atlantic
c~nst, but II is one of the worst parts
OF the whole Desert OF Sahara. il has
no rivers nor any GASES or value. ana
Is very thinly populated. II begins In
the nsighborhood OF Cape Blanco. and
its chief town is Rio de ORC. which
is golden only in name,
CONVICT COLONIES or MEDI-
TERRANEAN.
In addition TO these possessions, Spain
has several convict colonies on the Mo-
roccan coast OF the Mediterranean sea.
1'he first is Ceuta. just across the way
from Gibraltar. ] passed IL on my way
10 Tangier. 1t can he reached from Al
9eciras by a government steamer which
takes over dispatches and mail every
day. il consists OF u rock on which the