Africa and its inhabitants . , which here procure their supplies of salt from Tishit. The tablets ofthis indispensable article here form the recognised currency, four representing thevalue of an adult man. Jarra, north-east of Nioro, is no longer the Great City,nor the capital of the Moorish kingdom of Ludamar (Ulad-Mbarek,) as at thetime of Mungo Parks journey. South-east of it, but still in the Senegal basin,lies the important town of DiaiKjhirfe, occupied at the time of Mages visit by theToucouleur conquerors who had expelled the old Bambara residents. Before the reduction of the Toucouleur
Africa and its inhabitants . , which here procure their supplies of salt from Tishit. The tablets ofthis indispensable article here form the recognised currency, four representing thevalue of an adult man. Jarra, north-east of Nioro, is no longer the Great City,nor the capital of the Moorish kingdom of Ludamar (Ulad-Mbarek,) as at thetime of Mungo Parks journey. South-east of it, but still in the Senegal basin,lies the important town of DiaiKjhirfe, occupied at the time of Mages visit by theToucouleur conquerors who had expelled the old Bambara residents. Before the reduction of the Toucouleurs all the iBakhoy basin above Medinawas regarded as a part of the kingdom of Segu ; but in reality it comprised alarge number of Bambara and Malinke petty states and confederacies, which theToucouleurs had wasted with fire and sword. Although tbey had establishedthemselves only in a few strongholds, such as Jeuue and Kolodugu, they succeededin reducing this fertile region to a desert, exterminating nine-tenths of the whole 1. o P -<: H ToroGEArnT of Senegal. 168 population. The centre of their power was Murgiila, capital of Birgo, the captureof which place cost the French a large uuiliber of men. Bafuhibe, last station on the Senegal proper, and first in French Sudan, standsat an altitude of 450 feet over against the Bafing-Bakhoy confluence, where it wasfounded in 1879 to support the military operations about to be undertaken in thedirection of the Niger. It has already become a commercial centre, round whichhave sprung up seven flourishing villages, with gardens and banana 1881 the station of Badume was established on the Bakhoy, some 60 miles aboveBafulabe, and the fortress of Rita was erected in the Fula-dugu country, midwaybetween Bafulabe and the Niger. In 1§8;J the Niger itself was reached, and theerection begun of the fort of Bamaku, followed in 1884 and 188-5 by two newfortified stations between Kita and Bamaku, Ktindii on the northern and Niagassola
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