. The people of Africa. A series of papers on their character, condition, and future prospects . put in at the top. Atthe bottom is an opening through which the slag andother impurities are withdrawn. Thursday, December 3d. 1868, we started fromBallatah. The direction was , and parallel to arange of very high hills, called the Yukkah hills are from seven hundred to one thousandfeet high, and are various^ composed of granite, ironore, and a reddish clay, which, from the steep slopesnear the top, had shelved down in many places. Friday, 4th of December, 1868, we rested at Yuk-kah
. The people of Africa. A series of papers on their character, condition, and future prospects . put in at the top. Atthe bottom is an opening through which the slag andother impurities are withdrawn. Thursday, December 3d. 1868, we started fromBallatah. The direction was , and parallel to arange of very high hills, called the Yukkah hills are from seven hundred to one thousandfeet high, and are various^ composed of granite, ironore, and a reddish clay, which, from the steep slopesnear the top, had shelved down in many places. Friday, 4th of December, 1868, we rested at Yuk-kah. This town stands at the foot of a range of highhills of the same name. It is the last Boozie town,and the nearest to the Mandingo country. Thesehills, called * Yukkah by the Boozies, and Fomahby the Mandingoes, take a definite direction are the highest range, and form a marked andacknowledged boundary between the Boozie andMandingo territories. At the foot of this range areseated a number of towns, Boozie and Mandingo. THE MANDINGOES. The Mandingoes are an Arabic-speaking Moliam-. illiiimiiiiniiii li I .iiiiiiiiili CONDITION OF THE AFRICAN FIELD. 119 medau tribe, and notable traders, who travel overmost of the countiy between their land and the sea,and exert a strong influence over all the other tribes. Thej have made considerable advance in Anderson mentions the fact that a Mandino-opriest, with whom he was brought in contact, took anAiabic grammar Avhich Mr. Anderson had with him,and showed himself thoroughly versed in all the dis-tinctions of person, gender, number, etc., in the con-jugation of a verb. These j)eople, though Mohammedans, deserve ourhighest respect. They have cordially and honestlyembraced the highest form of religion which was with-in their reach. Professor Blyden bears witness thatthe progress of Islam among them presents the sameinstances of real and eager mental conflict, of mindsin honest transition, of careful comparison and re-f
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