Fulah
Americannoun
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Fulahs,
plural
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Fulah
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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Fuegians, the, 401, 411, 413 Fulah, the, 46, 53, 59, 66 sq.,
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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 Alfred Court Haddon
Notwithstanding the great Fulah conquests—for under a leader named Danfodio this has been one of the encroaching and subjugating families of Africa—there are still American slaves of Fulah blood—though, perhaps, but few.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Mary H. Kingsley
The same thing holds of the West African Fulahs.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Alfred Court Haddon
Malays have also been mentioned, and some ethnologists have even brought the Fulahs of Western Sudan all the way from Malaysia.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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