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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KONG , the name of a See also:

TOWN

town, See also:

DISTRICT

district and range of hills in the N.W. of the See also:

Ivory See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony, See also:

French See also:

West See also:

Africa. The hills are See also:

PART

part of the See also:

BAND

band of high ground separating the inner plains of West Africa from the coast regions. In maps of the first See also:

HALF

half of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the range is shown as part of a See also:

GREAT

great See also:

mountain See also:

CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain supposed to run See also:

east and west across Africa, and is thus made to appear a continuation of the Mountains of the See also:

Moon, or the See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-clad heights of See also:

RUWENZORI

Ruwenzori. The culminating point of the Kong See also:

SYSTEM

system is the Pic See also:

DES

des Kommono, 4757 ft. high. In See also:

general the summits of the hills are below 2000 ft. and not more than 700 ft. above the level of the 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. The " circle of Kong," one of the administrative divisions of the Ivory Coast colony, covers 46,000 sq. m. and has a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of some 400,000. The inhabitants are negroes, chiefly Bambara and See also:

MANDINGO

Mandingo. About a See also:

FOURTH

fourth of the population profess Mahommedanism; the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder are spirit worshippers. The town of Kong, situated in 9° N., 4°20' W., is not now of great importance. Probably Rene Caillie, who spent some See also:

time in the western part of the country in 1827, was the first See also:

EUROPEAN

European to visit Kong. In 1888 See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain L. G.

Binger induced the native chiefs to See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place themselves under the See also:

PROTECTION

protection of See also:

France, and in 1893 the See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate was attached to the Ivory Coast colony. For a time Kong was overrun by the armies of Samory (see See also:

SENEGAL

SENEGAL), but the See also:

CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of that See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief in 1898 was followed by the peaceful development of the district by France (see IVORY COAST).

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