Fulahs
- plural of Fulah.
Example Sentences
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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)
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
In the vicinity of the river Senegal the line of separation may be said to divide the Iolofs, a Negro nation, from the Fulahs and Phellatahs, whose physical characteristics are of an intermediate nature.
From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Johnes, Arthur James
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.
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 Haddon, Alfred Court
