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Title: Africa and its inhabitants
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue
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alled, first began with Andre Briie, director of the FrenchCompany in Senegal, at the end of the seventeenth and comnioncemont of theeighteenth century. lie penetrated into the region of the Upi)or Senegal «l)ovethe confluence of the Faliine, and sent several explorers into tlie riverain districtsalong the main stream. Tlie monk Apollinairo vi8ite<l the gold country inBambuk, which was traversed in all directions by Compagnon. The map proparwlby him and i)ublished in Labats work contains some details which have not yetbeen verified by any modern explorers. In 1786 Rubault 8urveyc<l tho thinly people*! tracts between tho Gambia andtho northern bend of the Senegal, and other trips were made into tho basin of theGambia. Tlien ^lungo Park, charged witli a mission of discovery by the I»ndonAfrican As.sociation, niothcr of all cniitcmixirary g<o;:riphical societies, made a AFRICA II. /. 122 WEST AFRICA. first expedition in 1705 from tlio coast to the Niger, whence lie returned to
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the Gambia -with a trading caravan. In 1818 Mollieu first reached the central SENEGAMBIA. 123 mass of the Futa-Jallon highlands, whence the waters flow oast to the Niger,nortli to the Senegal, west and south to the Gambia, Rio-Grande, Searcies, andRokelle. Since this memorable journey the country has been repeatedly traverstxl,especially by French naturalists, military and naval officers. While Braouezecand other sailors were studying the estuaries on the coast, French or native officials,such as Panct, Aliun-Sal, Bu-el-iloghdad, Vincent, iSolcillet, were surve)ing thesteppes north of the Senegal, and connecting with the Saharan oases, and even withMarocco, the network of itineraries in Senegambia. About the same time Mageand Quintin were pushing eastwards to the Niger basin and advancing in thedirection of Timbuktu, which was occu/)ied by the French in 1894. The Gallieni expedition of 1880 formed a fresh point of departure for theextensive geographical studies which went hand in hand

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