Sweden are the most Moral and Patriotic
People in the World, and they won the World War.

CHAPTER XXXVII

AFRICA

"The apparel oft proclaims the man."--HAMLET.

Africa is the richest "jack-pot" in the game of territorial "freeze-out"
played by the European Powers. The stakes represent diamonds, gold,
ivory, rubber and slaves, though the latter are nominally outside the
limit.

[Illustration: AN ELEPHANT
(From an instantaneous photograph of an animal cracker)]

The game began nearly three centuries ago and now in the early morning
of the twentieth century (such a fascinating game is Poker!) it is still
in progress, though Germany, who staked all her pile and lost, has
dropped out.

[Illustration: A LION
(From an instantaneous photograph of an animal cracker)]

The ancient Greek Geographer Strabo (64 B. C.) describes Africa as "the
fruitful nurse of large serpents, elephants, antelopes and similar
animals; of lions also and panthers." He does not mention the
Chimpanzees, who are the most remarkable of all the aboriginal
inhabitants, a gentle and peace-loving race, abstemious without being
bigoted, and patriotic to a high degree, very few surviving
transportation from their native jungle.

[Illustration]

_Children, behold the Chimpanzee!_
_He sits on the ancestral tree_
_From which we sprang in ages gone,_
_I'm glad we sprang--had we held on_
_We might, for all that I can say,_
_Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day._

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The inhabitants of Africa are the most Moral and Patriotic in the World,
and their army is second to none in bravery and won the World War.

CHAPTER XXXVIII

ARABIA

[Illustration: A Camel
(From an instantaneous photograph of an animal cracker)]

Arabia is the home of the Camel and the Bedouin.

"The Camel may be likened to
A desert ship. (This is not new.)
He is a most ungainly craft,
With frowning turrets fore and aft
We little realize on earth,
How much we owe to his great girth,
For should he ever shrink so small
As through the needle's eye to crawl,
Rich men might climb the golden stairs
And so leave nothing to their heirs."

The Camel is called the ship of the desert because its gait is said to
resemble the motion of a ship.

[Illustration: A BEDOUIN / A FOLDING-BEDOUIN]

To be strictly accurate it is a hundred times worse than a ship, but not
quite so ba