Africa and its inhabitants . the people have theirfetishes—roots, rags, tufts of hair, or the like, kept in an oxs horn, in an elephantstusk, or more fi-equently in a calabash or a large earthenware pot, the Iound formand yellow colour of which represent the sun, creator of all things. Sometimesthis vase contains a coiled snake, emblem of a world without beginning or end;when empty it is approached with still greater awe, for then it is the abodeof the unknown god. Topography. In the Upper Joliba basin even the capitals of states are mostly mere groups ofhuts, such as Nelia and Tantafara, clos
Africa and its inhabitants . the people have theirfetishes—roots, rags, tufts of hair, or the like, kept in an oxs horn, in an elephantstusk, or more fi-equently in a calabash or a large earthenware pot, the Iound formand yellow colour of which represent the sun, creator of all things. Sometimesthis vase contains a coiled snake, emblem of a world without beginning or end;when empty it is approached with still greater awe, for then it is the abodeof the unknown god. Topography. In the Upper Joliba basin even the capitals of states are mostly mere groups ofhuts, such as Nelia and Tantafara, close to the source of the river; Lia, at theconfluence of the branches forming the Joliba; Famnna, on the right bank, 120miles below the source, which at the time of Winwood Reades visit was a mereheap of ruins. Galaha, near the head of the Janda, was the usual residence ofSultan Samory in 1881; but in 1885 it had been replaced by Satwnkoro, lyingfarther north, as the summer capital, and by Bissandu, lower down, as his witter. YOUNU nAMIUIiAS. i% TOWNS OF THE UPPER NIGER. 293 residence. Near Bissandu, on the Milo, a small affluent of the Niger from theeast, lies Kaiikaii, the chief trading place in the country, inhabited by Mandinganand Sarakole merchants, who monopolise the whole trade of the Upper Nigerbasin. Kankan, once a hotbed of Mohammedanism in this region, and frequentlyat war with the pagan Torons, or Torongos, who occupy the south-eastern high-lands, has become a flourishing industrial centre since its occupation by the Frenchin 1893. In the basin of the Bakhoy, or eastern Niger, the chief markets are Teitgrera,Dehena, and Kong, that is, The Mountain, a large Mandingan town famous in allthe surrounding lands for its wealth in gold, woven goods, corn, and horses. Kongwas for the first time visited by Captain Binger in 1889, and since then haaaccepted the French protectorate. Fig. 134.—The Dio Watershed between the and Seseoai,.Scale 1 ; 200,000.
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