Africa . ch havesettled on this portion of the African coast, France pos-sesses the largest extent of territory. The whole of theleft bank of the lower Senegal river and the coast fromthe mouth of that river southward past Cape Yerde tonear the mouth of the Gambia, is in the hands of theFrench. Farther south their isolated possessions are thegreater part of the banks of the Cazamance river, withCarabane for the chief station; factories on the EioNunez, on the Rio Pongo, and on the Mellacoree or Mal-lecory river north of Sierra Leone. Between the Senegaland Gambia, or inland from the main tract
Africa . ch havesettled on this portion of the African coast, France pos-sesses the largest extent of territory. The whole of theleft bank of the lower Senegal river and the coast fromthe mouth of that river southward past Cape Yerde tonear the mouth of the Gambia, is in the hands of theFrench. Farther south their isolated possessions are thegreater part of the banks of the Cazamance river, withCarabane for the chief station; factories on the EioNunez, on the Rio Pongo, and on the Mellacoree or Mal-lecory river north of Sierra Leone. Between the Senegaland Gambia, or inland from the main tract of territorybelonging to them, the French also exercise a certainauthority in the interior, and are now making strenuousefforts both to direct the current of trade to their settle-ments on the Senegambian coast, and to establish a con-nection across the desert between these settlements andtheir Algerian possessions. 2. Toivns of St. Louis, Dakar, and Goree. The seat of government of French West Africa is. WESTERN SUDAX. Ill CHAPTEE X. WESTERN SUDAN OR SENEGAMBIA. 1. The French Settlements in Senegambia. By Senegambia is understood the region stretching fromthe river Senegal southwards to the coast of SierraLeone, but without any well-defined inland frontiers onthe east. Of the three European powers which havesettled on this portion of the African coast, France pos-sesses the largest extent of territory. The whole of theleft bank of the lower Senegal river and the coast fromthe mouth of that river southward past Cape Verde tonear the mouth of the Gambia, is in the hands of theFrench. Farther south their isolated possessions are thegreater part of the banks of the Cazamance river, withCarabane for the chief station; factories on the EioNunez, on the Eio Pongo, and on the Mellacoree or Mal-lecory river north of Sierra Leone. Between the Senegaland Gambia, or inland from the main tract of territorybelonging to them, the French also exercise a certainauthority in the interior, and
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