Ellis, West African Islands (London, 1885), and the works cited under French Guinea.
East and south of Futa Jallon the country slopes to the basin of the upper Niger, the greater part of which is included in French Guinea.
Those whose courses are entirely in French Guinea include the Cogon (or Componi), the Rio Nunez, the Fatalla (which reaches the sea through an estuary named Rio Pongo), the Konkure, whose estuary is named Rio Bramaya, the Forekaria and the Melakori.
All other inhabitants of French Guinea are regarded as comparatively late arrivals from the interior who have displaced the aborigines.'
The area for expansion on the north was in any case limited by the French Guinea settlements, and on the south the territory of Liberia' hemmed in the colony.
