Canada has exactly the same number as Sweden--one hundred and sixty-five thousand.

Mexico has perhaps ten thousand; New Zealand twenty-six thousand; and Australia fifty-five thousand.
Far down in the list of continents stands Africa.

Egypt and Algeria have twelve thousand at the north; British South Africa has as many at the south; and in the vast stretches between there are barely a thousand more.

Whoever pushes into Central Africa will still hear the beat of the wooden drum, which is the clattering sign-language of the natives.

One strand of copper wire there is, through the Congo region, placed there by order of the late King of Belgium.