West Coast, and is the only one specially connected with
the general contest for territory in that part of Africa.
Portugal has extensive possessions in Portuguese Angola
and East Africa, but thus far the development of these
territories has not been materially affected by the general
competition for land in Africa. Therefore they have not
been dealt with extensively in this volume. And for simi-
lar reasons descriptions of the French colony of Madagas-
car, of Italian Eritrea, and of British, French, and Italian
Somaliland have been omitted.

The author hopes to complete this study of European
Expansion and World Politics in a second volume on Euro-
pean Intervention and Competition in Asia. And he wishes
to acknowledge his indebtedness to his colleague, Dr. Ben-
jamin B. Wallace, who has read the proofs, prepared the
third appendix and the index, and given valuable assist-
ance in the collection of material.

EVANSTON, May, 1914.

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