This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII GERMANY, BELGIUM, SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND ITALY IN AFRICA We are not able here to enter into dreary diplomatic details concerning the partition of, or scramble for, Africa, apart from British and French possessions. The story of how Lord Granville was outwitted, outflanked, overreached and overcrowed by Prince von Bismarck; how Germany was successful here, and foiled there, in her efforts for colonial dominion in Africa; how Portugal, in her absurd claims for the possession of territory which she had never formally annexed or effectively occupied, was, according to her own account, browbeaten and bullied by Lord Salisbury; all this, and more, is excellently given in a work already referred to in these pages, The Partition of Africa. We shall now briefly state the territories of which Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy find themselves possessed after the division of the continent effected during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It was in 1884 that Germany began to extend her empire beyond the bounds of Europe. In Africa, at the close of the nineteenth century, she cannot be said to have any colonies in the proper sense, but only some large areas of protectorate or spheres of influence containing a few " factories" or trading posts, or some plantations of various kinds of produce. In Upper Guinea, between the Gold Coast Colony on the west and Dahomey on the east, lies Togoland, with a coast-line about 32 miles in length, an estimated area of 23,000 square miles, and a population supposed to be about two and a half millions, including a few score of Germans. Lome, the chief port, is the seat of government for an Imperial commissioner with a secretary, inspector of customs, and a local council of representatives of the merchan...