Africa and its inhabitants . o Ui oo TOPOGRAPHY OF 161 the mouth of the Panieful emissary, and the Dagana station, founded in 1821nearly opposite the Lake Cayor outlets. In the middle Senegal region the chief trading places arc Aere, on the branchof the Senegal skirting the south side of Morfil Island ; Salde, on the main branch,and Matam, above another bifurcation of the river. Bakel, above the Toucouleur country, is the natural port of the Upper Senegal,for here converge the trade routes from Guidimakha and Kaarta in the cast, fromBarabuk in the south-east, and from Bondu in the so
Africa and its inhabitants . o Ui oo TOPOGRAPHY OF 161 the mouth of the Panieful emissary, and the Dagana station, founded in 1821nearly opposite the Lake Cayor outlets. In the middle Senegal region the chief trading places arc Aere, on the branchof the Senegal skirting the south side of Morfil Island ; Salde, on the main branch,and Matam, above another bifurcation of the river. Bakel, above the Toucouleur country, is the natural port of the Upper Senegal,for here converge the trade routes from Guidimakha and Kaarta in the cast, fromBarabuk in the south-east, and from Bondu in the south. The fort, erected in 1820,and completed by three towers on the adjacent heights, is the strongest citadel andthe bulwark of French power in the Upper Senegal regions. It is also the centre Fig. 66.—KtjFiSQUE. Scale 1 : 35,000. ifKI. M«rin*
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