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concentrated in the neighbourhood of Tenetou at more than 500 kilo¬ 
metres to the north-east, where his son, Karamoko, assembled them in 
the Bouzie, near Mousardou. But a large number of Sofas were thrown 
back into the British territory of Sierra Leone, where they pursued their 
habitual depredations. In order to destroy these hordes which had 
thus collected inside their colonial frontier the British Governor of Sierra 
Leone, Sir F. Fleming, modifying his former attitude with regard to 
these disbanded troops of Samory, decided now all of a sudden to 
establish in close proximity to the English frontier a chain of posts 
parallel to the French line. Caglieri, Falaba, Dangowale, Sangbe, were 
also furnished with garrisons of black troops, native police, and West 
India regiments. The establishment of these last two stations only 
dates from the middle of last year. In addition, it was decided that an 
expeditionary column should be sent to the front to drive out the colony 
, of Sofas who had established themselves within the colony. This 
column, consisting of 400 men of the 1st Battalion West India Regi¬ 
ment and colonial police, in charge of Captain Lendy, was placed under 
the command of Colonel Ellis, and proceeded inland last November, 
! via Bendu and the valley of the River Bourn. 
It is 10 years since the question of the frontier line between Sierra 
Leone and the French Soudan became a subject for pourparlers be¬ 
tween the Governments of Great Britain and France. For the treaty 
of 1882, which was rightly disapproved by the French Chamber of 
Deputies, a new agreement was come to in August, 1889, which was 
ratified by both parties, the final ratification having been signed by 
the French Cabinet on the 12th March, 1890. By this instrument the 
frontier was determined—on the map!—between the French Guinea 
coast and the colony of Sierra Leone. Some time afterwards, on the 
20th June, 1891, the French and English commissioners, MM. G. 
Hanotaux and J. Haussmann, with Messrs. Egerton and Crowe, com¬ 
pleted the work of 1889 in precisely specifying the frontier line 
between Sierra Leone and the French Soudan, as follows:— 
“The commissioners, experts, who may be designated by the French 
and English Governments, in accordance with Article 2 of the Con¬ 
vention of 10th August, 1889, for the purpose of tracing the demarcation 
of the respective zones, will follow, as nearly as possible, that which 
is indicated in the said arrangement, viz., the line of the meridian 13° 
west from Paris (i.e., 10° 39' 45" from Greenwich), beginning from the 
10th degree of latitude towards the south. In laying down the frontier 
in the general direction of this meridian they take into account, by 
mutual agreement, the configuration of the ground and local circum¬ 
stances, and bend the line of demarcation either to the east or west, 
taking care not to give any advantage to one of the two territories 
without equitable compensation for the other. These modifications, 
however, will not be definitely determined until after ratification by 
the two Governments. 
“It is understood that the line of demarcation shall follow, as nearly 
as possible, the crest of the heights which, according to the Monteil 
map, border on the course of the Niger on the left bank between the 
10th degree and Tembi-Counda. 
