Africa and its inhabitants . verain citiesof thfe Niger. Before the overthrow of the Toucouleurs it was the capital of avast empire, with an area of 200,000 square miles between Kaarta and Wassilu in MASSINA. 207 one direction, and between Jallonke-diigti and Jlassina in another ; but it occupiessuch an advantageous position for trade, that however wasted by war and dethronedfromits royal state, Segu must alwa38 recover from its political disasters, and continueto be a great centre of population and traffic. It lies on the right bank, scarcely 24miles below the Bakhoy confluence, at the conver
Africa and its inhabitants . verain citiesof thfe Niger. Before the overthrow of the Toucouleurs it was the capital of avast empire, with an area of 200,000 square miles between Kaarta and Wassilu in MASSINA. 207 one direction, and between Jallonke-diigti and Jlassina in another ; but it occupiessuch an advantageous position for trade, that however wasted by war and dethronedfromits royal state, Segu must alwa38 recover from its political disasters, and continueto be a great centre of population and traffic. It lies on the right bank, scarcely 24miles below the Bakhoy confluence, at the converging point of all the trade routesfrom the Upper Niger valleys, between Futa-Jallon und the Mahi uplands. Thelarge market of Kayayr, about 120 miles to the south-cast, is the chief station onthe highway leading to the flourishing Mandingan city of Kong. The wars thatfor the last half century have wasted all the surrounding lands have fortunately Fig. 138.—Sansandio. Rcnlc 1 : i Velcnt! Julia S«NSANOII SefiekKalla. East of ^ t> Miles. spared the Segu district, which according to Mage had a population of onehundred thousand in 1865, of which thirty-six thousand appeared to be centred inthe city and its outskirts. Segu really consists of several distinct towns, such as Si-iju Kovo, or OldSeffu, opposite Farncco, Segu Btigii, facing Knlnhugn, Segu Kurn or New Segu,and lastly Segn Sikoro, present residence of the prince and official capital of thestate, the whole occupying a space of about 10 miles along the right bank of theriver. Lower down on the same side is the village of Somono fishers and boatmen,who, for services rendered to the Toucouleur conquerors, have obtained themonopoly of the riverain industries. But the thcm-solvcs are nolonger masters of Segu. The foundation of the French military posts in TpprSonegiri, the growth of the new empire under Snmory. and the revoltr AFRICA II. «J8 WEST .VFEICA. in Bele-dugu and contermin
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