Fulah
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No doubt early in the nineteenth century the historical Hausa States, occupying the whole region between the Niger and Bornu, were overrun and reduced by the fanatical Fulah bands under Othmán Dan Fodye.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Besides, there were bits of pottery, brass, and silver work, the Fulah brought across the desert.
From Wyndham's Pal by Bindloss, Harold
Here agglutination, both with prefixed and postfixed particles, is the prevailing morphological order, as in the Mandingan, Fulah, Nubian, Dinkan, and Mangbattu groups.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
K. Three from the widely-spread nations of the interior—the Fulah, the Haussa, and the Bornu.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Mr. W. Winwood Reade suspects them to be an offshoot of the great Fulah race, and there is nothing in point of dialect to disprove what we must at present consider a pure conjecture.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The Fulahs of Fouta-Torro and Fouta-Jallo possess the higher part of the Senegambian system.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Serawolli.—On the Middle Senegal, different, in many respects, from the Sereres, the Wolofs, and the Fulahs; nations with which they are in geographical contact.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The Yangere section were still on the move some twelve years ago, but the general migration has since been arrested by the Fulahs of Adamawa.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
In among these crowds of country people walk stately Mohammedans, Mandingoes, Akers, and Fulahs of the Arabised tribes of the Western Soudan.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
When first heard of by Bowdich in 1819, the Paämways, as he calls the Fans, were an inland people presenting such marked Hamitic or Caucasic features that he allied them with the West Sudanese Fulahs.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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