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Identifier: africakeith00john
Title: Africa
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa — Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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themaia group of the states of the FellataJi, limited eastwardby the civilised negro states of Bornu and Baghirmi inthe region of the great basin of Lake Chad. This vastlake is studded with islands, and does not lie, as was for-merly supposed, in the lowest level of the Sudan. Itreceives many streams, the largest being the great Sharifrom the south-east, the upper course of which has notyet been traced. Here we are in the true centre of thecontinent, on the borders of the state of Wadai, till quiterecently entirely secluded, and which approaches on theeast to the Egyptian Sudan. Instead of the waterless desert, with its dried-up riverbeds, scanty vegetation, wide uninhabited plains, and scat-tered nomad tribes, Sudan thus presents the picture of arichly watered, diversified, fertile, and highly cultivatedland, with a varied fauna and tropical flora, wherein dwellmany populous and settled nations, who have arrived at acertain deiiree of civilisation. SENEGAL. GAMBIA. SIERRA LEOXE &

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VESTEEN SUDAN. Ill \ CHAPTEE X. ~– WESTERN SUDAN OR SEXEGAMBIA. 1. Ihe French Settlements in Scnegcimhia. 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 tliree 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 a

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