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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BUSSA , a See also:

TOWN

town in the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate of See also:

NORTHERN

Northern See also:

NIGERIA

Nigeria, on the See also:

west See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Niger, in Io° 9' N., 4° 40' E. It is situated just above the rapids which See also:

mark the limit of navigability of the Niger by steamer from the See also:

sea. Here in 18o6 Mungo See also:

Park, in his second expedition to trace the course of the Niger, was attacked by the inhabitants, and drowned while endeavouring to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape. During 1894–1898 its See also:

possession was disputed by See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and See also:

France, the last-named See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country acknowledging by the See also:

convention of See also:

JUNE

June 1898 the British claim, which carried with it the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the See also:

LOWER

lower Niger. It is now the See also:

capital of northern See also:

BORGU, or BARBA

Borgu (see NIGERIA, and BORGU).

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