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THE FRENCH SOUDAN. 
, “ Nevertheless, in cases where the line of partition of the waters shall 
not be such as shown on the Montiel map, the commissioners of the 
two countries must trace the frontier without taking it into account, 
under the express reservation that the two banks of the Niger shall 
remain included within the French zone of influence. 
“By the term "Niger,” is to be understood the Djoliba, as well as 
its two principal sources, the Faliko and the Tembi. In the before- 
mentioned case the frontier line, starting from the 10th degree as far 
as Tembi-Counda (the mountain where the Tembi takes its rise), shall 
follow at a distance of 10 kilometres the left bank of the Djoliba, of 
of the Faliko, and also of the Tembi up to its source, if it is expedient. 
In cases where the crest of the mountains shall be found nearer ap¬ 
proached to the left bank of the Niger the frontier will follow the line 
of parting of the waters.” 
It will be remembered that in carrying out this arrangement a mixed 
commission was sent into Africa. The French delegate was M. 
Lamadon, who had as technical colleague Lieutenant Bransoulee. 
The English delegate was Captain A. H. Kenney, Royal Engineers. ! 
The terms of agreement, unfortunately, could not be effected on the 
ground. Captain Kenney took up the same attitude which had been i 
assumed by Captain Laing, his colleague, in the mission for the delimi- ! 
tation of the Gold Coast frontier, where the French delegate was 
Captain Binger. On the return of the commissioners the diplomatic 
negotiations were obliged to be resumed, and at last were brought to a j 
conclusion. 
The frontier of the English Gold Coast has been, for some months 
past, determined, to the entire satisfaction both of the French Govern- ' 
ment and our own. It has been the same, we believe, with the frontier 
of Sierra Leone. 1 If our information is correct, the protocol ought to 
be signed in the course of February, and it has only been awaiting 
the return of one of the French commissioners, M. Jacques Hauss- 
mann, till.lately on a mission to Berlin. 
The question of Erimankono, about which there has been some 
little stir in Sierra Leone and in England, has been settled conform¬ 
ably to the claim of France, as this village is in the basin of the Niger. 
It was under the above circumstances that the recent collision between 
the native Senegal tirailleurs and the English force, under Colonel 
Ellis, took place near the French frontier. 
It was somewhere near here last summer that Lieut. Gaston Maxime 
Maritz was stationed under Captain Bouvie, who was in charge of the 
post of Farannah, on the Upper Niger, within a few miles of the 
north-east corner of the Sierra Leone frontier. In September he left 
with a small force of Senegal tirailleurs and natives, and proceeded to 
patrol southwards, via Liah, Cabaya, Fodoya, Selia, to Socora, on the 
Falico river. Thence he followed up the valley of the Falico to Mari- 
1 The map of the Anglo-French boundary near Sierra Leone, in accordance with Anglo-French 
agreement of 1889 and convention of June 1891, surveyed by British delimitation commission in 
December, 1891, and in January, February and March 1892, in eight sheets, on a scale of two 
miles to an inch, was completed in May 1892, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, and 
issued by the Intelligence Division War Office. 
In this map, however, only the northern boundary line, in latitude 10° north, is shown. 
