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Dark_Continent
Dark Continent
English
Proper noun
- (dated, informal) Africa.
- 1879, De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing tho isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.
- The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 1879
- 1903 Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.
- The Advertiser Adelaide, 10 November 1903.
- 1879, De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Boy of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing tho isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.