Borgu

Borgu, or BUSSANGA, an African state attached by treaty since 1884-86 to the Royal Niger Company, lying on both sides of the Niger (q.v.), and bordering on Gando and Illorin, provinces of the empire of Sokoto (q.v.). The country is generally level, but rises in the north into lofty ranges of hills, and is very fertile and thickly populated. It was at Boussa, one of the chief towns, that Mungo Park lost his life in 1805.