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The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

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FOREWORD 

Word Count: 379    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

the world's stage, never to return. In the Argentine, in Mexico, and in Alaska store clothes and stiff hats are replacing corduroys and sombreros; the pack-mule is giving

ed our railways across the desert in the face of Indian opposition forty years ago. As an El Dorado the Transvaal has taken the place held by Australia, and California, and the Yukon, in their turn. The grazing lands of Morocco and the grain lands of Rhodesia will pr

nger and hardship for their daily mates; they die with their boots on from snake-bite or sleeping-sickness or Somali spear; and remember, please, they are making new markets and new playgrounds for you and me. Morocco, Algeria, Tripolitania, Equatoria, Rhodesia, the Sahara, the Sudan, the Congo, the

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“The unknown lands are almost all discovered. The work of the explorer and the pioneer is nearly finished, and ere long their stern and hardy figures will have passed from the world's stage, never to return. In the Argentine, in Mexico, and in Alaska store clothes and stiff hats are replacing corduroys and sombreros; the pack-mule is giving way to the motor-car.”
1 FOREWORD2 AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT3 CHAPTER I THE THIRD EMPIRE4 CHAPTER II THE PASSING OF THE PEACOCK'S TAIL5 CHAPTER III SIRENS OF THE SANDS6 CHAPTER IV THE ITALIAN "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN"7 CHAPTER V THE LAND OF BEFORE-AND-AFTER8 CHAPTER VI IN ZANZIBAR9 CHAPTER VII THE SPIKED HELMET IN AFRICA10 CHAPTER VIII "ALL ABOARD FOR CAPE TOWN!"11 CHAPTER IX THE LAST STAND OF THE PIONEER12 CHAPTER X THE COUNTRY OF BIG THINGS13 CHAPTER XI THE FORGOTTEN ISLES