A Voyage Along the Western Coast Or Newest Africa a Description of Newest Af
A Voyage Along the Western Coast Or Newest Africa a Description of Newest Af
Joseph H Joseph Hankinson Reading
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The changes foreshadowed in these pages are not relatively greater than the writer has seen with his own eyes on the West African coast during the last sixteen years. A notable instance of how mistaken even good men may be in their estimate of the value of new countries, is furnished by Daniel Webster. Less than fifty years ago a bill was brought before the United States Senate to establish a mail route from Western Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia river. Senator Webster opposed the measur...e as a useless expense and spoke as follows : " What do we want with this vast worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these deserts, or these endless mountain chains, impenetrable and covered to their bases with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast — a coast three thousand miles long, rock-bound, cheerless and uninviting, and not a harbor on it ?
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