FALABA, a town of West Africa, about 190 miles N.W. of Freetown in Sierra Leone, at the foot of the Konkocnzor, and on the Pala river, a tributary of the Little Scar- cies. It was founded by the Sulitnas, who revolted from the Mahometan Foulas, and its warlike inhabitants soon attained supremacy over the neighbouring villages and country. The defences consist of a lofty stockade, and a moat about 20 feet deep and as many in breadth. From a distance the town appears like a grove of silk-cotton trees, and only at intervals arc the brown roofs seen peering through the foliage. Major Laing about 1825 estimated the number of huts at about 4000. They are arranged in clusters round squares or court-yards, and though only built of clay are neat and even elegant. Winwood Reade, who was detained in the town during his Niger journey in 1869, has given a graphic description of life in Falaba in his African Sketch, Bou•, vol. ii., 1873. See also Laing, Travels in HT. Africa,