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

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

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Bordeaux, 1894) .

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