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The Fullan Princes of Soudan are represented as eminently friendly to every body, every stranger of whatever clime or religion. However, I do not pretend to know what effect the Niger expedition may have produced on the Fullans, with respect to Englishmen. 7th. Stayed at home all the day. The fœx populi is a great worry to me.
The mild and equitable administration of the kingdoms of Kanou, Succatou, Kashna, and other immense centres of population, as carried on by the Fullans, is notorious throughout The Great Desert. No people of Nigritian Africa has so profoundly excited my best sympathies as the Fullanee races .
Amazirghs, Berbers, and Touaricks 2,300,000 Amazirghs, Shelouhs and Arabs 1,450,000 Arabs, mixed Moors, &c. 3,550,000 Arabs pure, Bedouins, &c. 740,000 Israelites, Rabbinists, and Caraites 339,500 Negroes, Fullans, and Mandingoes 120,000 Europeans and Christians 300 Renegades 200 Total 8,500,000
There appears very little chance of civilizing Africa without arms and conquest. These are the present most important kingdoms of the ancient Nigritia, and include a population of some millions. I continue to pursue my inquiries respecting the Fullans.
But they are scattered higher up through the extensive provinces of Housa, subjected to the Fullans. In The Sahara, comprehended by these immense lines, they have some large cities and agricultural districts. The principal of them are Ghat, Aheer, and Aghadez, in the east, Touat and Timbuctoo, in the west.
They are the cause of continual disturbances at Timbuctoo; nevertheless, so powerful are the Fullans, that they manage to keep the Touaricks in subjection, as well as the native Negro tribes. There are seven mosques, the minarets of some of which are as large as those of Tripoli. There are several schools and a few learned doctors amongst the priests.
Such is but one dark sad picture of a thousand now being exhibited here! One would think God had made one part of the human race to torment the other. Spent the evening with Haj Ibrahim. A merchant in his house related that Noufee was now convulsed with a civil war. This country is now in the hands of the Fullans. He had often visited that country, and had seen English people there.
The fortunes of the Fullans, emerging filthily from the dregs and offscouring of The Sahara, have become as great as the old Romans formerly in Europe, but they will always have powerful and vindictive rivals in the Touarghee and pure Arab and Berber races. The Revd. Mr. It is true that the Fullans are great slave-dealers, but so are nearly all the princes of Africa.
The words in the Cross, which Constantine is reported to have seen in the heavens. When the milk is fresh it is called by the Arabs حليب, when sour, لبن. Gaiety of the Black Dervish. Walking Dance of the Slaves. The Fullans or Fellatahs. Shoushoua, or scarifying the face of Negroes. Terms used in connexion with Slaves. The Razzia. A Souafee Politician.
No purling streamlet murmurs there, no chequer'd shadows fall; 'Tis torrid, waste and desolate, but free to each and all. Through the desert, through the desert! Oh, the Arab would no change, For purple robes or olive-trees, his wild and burning range." Fullans. Mungo Park says: "The Foulahs are chiefly of a tawny complexion, with silky hair, and pleasing features."
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