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Updated: May 16, 2025
On the 1st of February Dr Barth approached the important city of Kano. Almost all the people he met saluted him kindly and cheerfully, only a few haughty Fellani passing without a salute. The villages were here scattered about in the most agreeable way, such as is only practicable in a country in a state of considerable security.
They are renowned for their fidelity, and form the most numerous part of the body-guards of the Sultan; that body-guard makes about the half of the army, which on an average compose a total of ten thousand men. The greater part of those Blacks comes from Senegambia, Guinea, and the dominions of the Fellah or Fellani."
Passing through the market-place, they entered the quarters of the ruling race the Fulbe or Fellani, where conical huts of thatched work and the gonda-tree are prevalent. They first proceeded to the house of the gadado, the lord of the treasury. It was an interesting specimen of the domestic arrangements of the Fulbe, who do not disown their original character of nomadic cattle-breeders.
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