Africa and its inhabitants . 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 t
Africa and its inhabitants . 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 Fig. 07.— 1 : 850, - - Riilway in cooBtmction. C Miln. on the southern route. Thus there is nowhere a gap of more than 70 miles betweenthe French garrisons in this region, where the coiinnercial and strategical centre isthe post of MakadiambtKjudi, encircled by fourteen Bambara villages which takethe collective name of Kita. This station lies at the converging point of the mainroutes, at the entrance of a gorge commanded on the west by a mass of with steep escarpments over 2,000 feet above sea-level and 8.)0 above thesurrounding i)lain. East of Kita arc seen the ruins of Baugassi, the old capital ofFula-dugu, visited by Mungo Iark. Since the defeat and capture of the Fulah Chief, Samory, by Captain Gourand,in September, 1898, the Bafing basin, south-east of Bambuk, has ceased to be onoof the least-known regions in ISenegambia. The native reports were found to begreatly exaggerated, especially regarding the strategical importance of Dinguirai/,which Prince Om
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