Bondou
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- Bondu (former state in present-day Senegal)
- 1830, René Caillié, Voyage à Tombouctou, Paris: La Découverte, published 1996, →ISBN, page 49:
- Enfin, nous sommes dans le Bondou. M. Partarrieu, qui redoutait extrêmement la rencontre de l’almamy, voulait éviter Boulibané, sa résidence ordinaire, pour gagner promptement et directement Bakel ; mais les habitants de Potako, second village que nous trouvâmes, manifestèrent la volonté de s’opposer à ce projet.
- Finally, we find ourselves in Bondu. Mr Partarrieu, who was extremely reluctant to meet the almami , wanted to avoid Bulibani, his usual place of residence, and quickly head straight to Bakel; but the inhabitants of Potako, the second village that we came across, expressed their opposition to this plan.