In the mountain region and contiguons to the western and southern - banks of the Senegal is Galas, which comprehends the country from the Falls of Feeloo (lir 30' W. long.) westward, but does not extend to a great distance from the river. It is densely Inhabited, a string of towns occurring along the banks of the river, among which Tnabo, Maim*, and Mussels are considerable places. The inhabitants are mostly Serrawollies; they are distinguished by their manufacture of cotton stuffs, to which they give a fine and permanent blue colour. Between Galas and Wooli on the Gambia is llondoo, the most power ful state in these parts of Senegambia, which is probably owing to the king, whose title is Mang, being leas dependent on the chiefs of the villager and towns. The Inhabitants, who are a mixture of Jeloofs, Foetl% Semiwollies, and Mandingoes, are much occupied in trade and manufactures. The moat places are Boolibany and Fatteconda. Fist of Rondo° and south of Kajaaga is Ilambouk, which is noted for its gold-mloe* Taxisoce.] .
The other stated which he fart er east and south in the moat elevated part of the mountain region and between the numerous tributaries of the Senegal, are much less known than those hitherto deuribed. The most extensive are Fooled°, the ancient country of the Foolish% who however were expelled from it by the Mandingoes, with the towns of Kcoena, Keminoom, and Bangassi; Mending, the native country of the Mandingue, which comprehends the most eastern portion of the mountain region, and has several mines of gold, with the towns of Sibidooloo and Kunalia ; Jallon Kailoo, the unin habited wildenwee which extends between the sources of several branches of the river Senegal • Konkodoo on the Ba Fing, or principal branch of the Senegal, which 'llas some rich mines of gold, with the town of Konkroma ; Satadoo, with the capital of the same name; and Dentin*, with the towns of 11;alserile and Kirwan!, which is inhabited by very intelligent agriculturists, and where there are several smelt ing-furnaces. On the river Gambia are the small states of Neola, with the town of Tambacunds, and Tends, with the town of Jallacotta.
It does not appear that there is any large kingdom or state south of the Gambia, with the exception of that of Foote Janet). Indeed as this state has subjected the tribe of the Landamas, who inhabit the country between that river and the Nutiez, and rendered it tributory, it may be said that its dominions extend to the very shores of the sea. The principal seat of its power is the well cultivated and populous plains of the elevated of Foote Jallon, where the capital, Timbo, not far from the sources of the Senegal, contains 7000 inhabitants, and several other towns contain from 3000 to 5000 inhabit ants. Moat of the inhabitants are Foolahs, but in the fastnesses of the
mountains there are still some small native tribes of negroes. In the country which extends between Foote Jallon and the coast, each village appears to have a chief, but no political connection subsists among the villages.
European Settlements and their European settlements in Senegambia are strictly commercial. The settlers have not acquired the property of any land, except the place on which they have settled, and no cultivation is carried on by them or their people, except at is few spots which are rather gardens than plantations. Each of the three European nations which have formed settlemeuts has taken possession as it were of one of the three large rivers, the French of the Senegal, the English of the Gambia, and the Portuguese of the Rio Grande. Each has built a fortress on an island not far from the the mouth of the river, which serves as a safe place of deposit for goods which are imported, and from which the productions of the country are shipped. The merchants set out from these places in large river boats with their goods at certain seasons of the year, and ascend the rivers as far as they are navigable. They stop at certain points to which the natives bring their productions to exchange for European manufactures.
The principal French settlement is St.-Louie, a town containing about 15,000 inhabitants, of whom about 800 are whites. It is built on a sandy island, about two miles long and a quarter of a mile wide on an average, which is about five miles from the mouth of tho river. Only vessels drawing less than 12 feet of water can sail up to the town, as there is a bar across the mouth of the river. [SENEGAL] The French have also two small fortresses on the banks of the Senegal, one at Podhor, at the western extremity of the island of Morfil, and the other at Bakel, or Baquelle, in the kingdom of Lower (Islam, not far from the junction of the Faleme with the Senegal. Between Podhor and St.-Louis there are several places to which the Moors of the tribes of the Trarza and Braknas bring at certain seasons the gum which they collect in the mimosa forests of the south-western districts of the Sahara. Such places are called markets, and are only inhabited during the stay of the Moors. The most frequented are tho Eacale do-Ddeert and the Escale-clu-Coq, or Braknns. The French have also a fortress on the island of Gorse, near Cape Verd [Genes), and an establishment at the mouth of the river Casamanza, which enters tho sea between the Gambia and the Rio Grande.