activities, are in no position properly to administer, either with men or money, a country which, like the Congo Basin, is 80 times larger than Belgium itself! The following table will also prove illuminating:
io Portuguese control more than 3 r / 2 sq.Kil. of colonies with 15 Natives 10 Belgians >> » >> 3 >> » » » 20 »
10 Frenchmen » » » 3 » » » » 12 »
10 Englishmen » >* » 6 r /2 » » » » 83
10 Germans » >• « 0-4 » » » >> 2 »
Africa as Europe’s Garden.
When in addition to these amazing facts, we further consider that the German territories are to a large extent desert land, and afflicted with a climate detrimental to the white man, the disparity in Germany’s disfavour grows still more vast. The natural interests of Germany have never been properly considered even in her scattered colonies. For example, there are boundary rivers, such as the Orange in German South-West Africa and the Volta in Togo, which leave the entire river bed to the neighbouring state, whilst Walfisch Bay in German South-West Africa is still held by England, though of little value to her. A condition such as this must be characterized as a sign of ill-health in the natural economy of the world, a perilous lack of balance and adjustment between home lands and settlement lands, between over-populated Europe and its natural garden and colony—Africa.