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the Tuma) at a place called Zigapora Zue, possibly the town 

 now known as Sanoyei. He states that he quitted the forest 

 region at Bulata, where the ground rose to an altitude of 

 2,253 feet. From this point, travelling in a north-easterly 

 direction, he passed through an open park-like country, 

 covered with tall grass, with a few trees. There is, I think, 

 little doubt that Anderson reached the Mandingo Plateau ; 

 but the places of which he wrote — Muhammadu and Musadu — 

 have not subsequently been seen or identified by any traveller 

 who has succeeded him after an interval of thirty years. ^ The 

 place where gold was found, which he alludes to as Buley, is 

 possibly the Mandingo town of Bula, now occupied by the 

 French, which is situated exactly on the Liberian frontier, on 

 the hne of water-parting between the St. Paul's River on the 

 one hand and the Sasandra on the other. 



It is unfortunately impossible to identify any of the sites 

 mentioned by Anderson after Totokwali, which is a short 

 distance east of the town of Boporo. He states that in the 

 Buzi country (which according to his story would begin some- 

 where about the Tuma River) there are large, densely 

 peopled towns, with markets, often tenanted by five thousand 

 people at a time. The towns are cleanly, contain well-built 

 houses of clay, and are surrounded by high and massive clay 

 walls, all this showing Mandingo influence. The hills or 

 mountains are of sandstone in the Boporo region, but farther 

 north of granite. The hills about Zolu (possibly Mount 

 Banyei) contain, according to Anderson, large stones of a 

 beautiful green colour (.? malachite). In the Buzi country much 

 cotton is cultivated. The scenery in this land of the Buzi 

 people (north-west of the St. Paul's River) he declares to be 

 very beautiful. The hills or mountains are round and bossy 



' On some French maps the last named appears as Musadiigu, near Bella. 



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