Africa and its inhabitants . dustrious artisansfamous for the excellence of their embroidered Icatherware, textiles, dyes, arms,and implements. A Fulah slave on his return from Brazil established near Sokotoa small sugarcane plar^tation and a refinery, a remarkable instance of the influencealready exercised by the New World on the civilisation of the Old. A separatequarter of Sokoto is inhabited by Arab traders from Hhat and Ghadames, andenterprising English dealers have also made their appearance in this great marketof Central Africa, which was first visited by Clapperton. Here this famoustra
Africa and its inhabitants . dustrious artisansfamous for the excellence of their embroidered Icatherware, textiles, dyes, arms,and implements. A Fulah slave on his return from Brazil established near Sokotoa small sugarcane plar^tation and a refinery, a remarkable instance of the influencealready exercised by the New World on the civilisation of the Old. A separatequarter of Sokoto is inhabited by Arab traders from Hhat and Ghadames, andenterprising English dealers have also made their appearance in this great marketof Central Africa, which was first visited by Clapperton. Here this famoustraveller died in 1827, and was buried in a neighbouring village by his companionRichard Lander. The decayed city of Shifawa {^Sifaica), 18 miles south of Sokoto, is a historicalplace, where the founder of the Fulah empire resided for some years. Gando, 36miles farther to the south-west, was also one of Othmans residences, and is- now GANDO, 317 the capital of West Haussa with all its dependencies west of the Niger as fur as to. the ifrossi territory; Imt it roi«.guiscs tlio supremacy of .Sokolo, cupil^il ..f the 318 WEST AFRICA. eastern empire. It occupies a singiilar position in a cavity encircled on all sidesby escarpments, and watered by a small affluent of the Sokoto. This depressionis surprisingly fertile, yielding an abundance of exquisite fruits and bananas and onions of Gando are famous throughout Ilaussa Land. Birni nKehbi ( Fort Kebbi), standing 30 miles west of Gando, on a terrace280 feet above the broad and fertile Sokoto valley, occupied an admirable strate- Fig. 151.—Gakdo and 1: ,000.
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