BONDU  , a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROTECTORATE

protectorate in See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, dependent on the See also:

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

colony of See also:

• SENEGAL

Senegal . Bondu lies between the Faleme See also:

• RIVER

river and the upper course of the See also:

• GAMBIA

Gambia, that is between 13° and 15° N., and 12° and 13° W . 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 is an elevated See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau, with hills in the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern and central parts . These are generally unproductive, and covered with stunted See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood; but the See also:

• LOWER

lower country is fertile, and finely clothed with the See also:

• BAOBAB

baobab, the See also:

• TAMARIND

tamarind and various valuable See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit-trees Bondu is traversed by torrents, which flow rapidly during the rains but are empty in the dry See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, such streams being known in this See also:

• PART

part of West Africa as marigots . The inhabitants are mostly See also:

• FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS)

Fula, though the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade is largely in the hands of Mandingos . The See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion and See also:

• LAWS

laws of the country are See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan, though the precepts of that faith are not very rigorously observed . Mungo See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park, the first See also:

• EUROPEAN

European traveller to visit the country, passed through Bondu in 1795, and had to submit to many exactions from the reigning See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince . The royal See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence was then at Fatteconda; but when See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major W . See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Gray, a See also:

• BRITISH

British officer who attempted to solve the See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

Niger problem, visited Bondu in 1818 it had been removed to Bulibani, a small See also:

• TOWN

town, with about 3000 See also:

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

population, surrounded by a strong See also:

• CLAY (from O. Eng. claeg, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Klei)
• CLAY, CASSIUS MARCELLUS (1810-1903)
• CLAY, CHARLES (1801–1893)
• CLAY, FREDERIC (1838–1889)
• CLAY, HENRY (1777–1852)

clay See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall . In See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1845 the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of Bondu signed a treaty recognizing French See also:

• SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty over his country . The treaty was disregarded by the natives, but in 1858 Bondu came definitely under French 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 . 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

Bordeaux, 1894) .