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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 200 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONDU , a See also:

French See also:protectorate in See also:West See also:Africa, dependent on the See also:colony of See also:Senegal. Bondu lies between the Faleme See also:river and the upper course of the See also:Gambia, that is between 13° and 15° N., and 12° and 13° W. The See also:country is an elevated See also:plateau, with hills in the See also:southern and central parts. These are generally unproductive, and covered with stunted See also:wood; but the See also:lower country is fertile, and finely clothed with the See also:baobab, the See also:tamarind and various valuable See also:fruit-trees Bondu is traversed by torrents, which flow rapidly during the rains but are empty in the dry See also:season, such streams being known in this See also:part of West Africa as marigots. The inhabitants are mostly See also:Fula, though the See also:trade is largely in the hands of Mandingos. The See also:religion and See also:laws of the country are See also:Mahommedan, though the precepts of that faith are not very rigorously observed. Mungo See also:Park, the first See also:European traveller to visit the country, passed through Bondu in 1795, and had to submit to many exactions from the reigning See also:prince. The royal See also:residence was then at Fatteconda; but when See also:Major W. See also:Gray, a See also:British officer who attempted to solve the See also:Niger problem, visited Bondu in 1818 it had been removed to Bulibani, a small See also:town, with about 3000 See also:population, surrounded by a strong See also:clay See also:wall. In See also:August 1845 the See also:king of Bondu signed a treaty recognizing French See also:sovereignty over his country. The treaty was disregarded by the natives, but in 1858 Bondu came definitely under French See also:control. The country has since enjoyed Considerable prosperity (see SENEGAL).

See A. Ranson, Le Bondou: etude de geographie et d'histoire soudaniennes de 1681 d nos jours (See also:

Bordeaux, 1894).

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