Africa and its inhabitants . elves as the elder brothers of the Kanuris of Bornu,who wore originally an advanced colony of the Kanem-bu, and who during theirlong sojourn in a more fertile and civilised region acquired greater power andsocial refinement. Of all the Kanem peoples the Ngijems and Danoas alone have succeeded inpreserving their independence, never having been subdued even by the Aulad-Sliman. But in order to maintain the struggle they have had to shift theirquarters more than once, and in recent times they have acknowledged themselvesvassals of Wadai. The Danoas are settled in the
Africa and its inhabitants . elves as the elder brothers of the Kanuris of Bornu,who wore originally an advanced colony of the Kanem-bu, and who during theirlong sojourn in a more fertile and civilised region acquired greater power andsocial refinement. Of all the Kanem peoples the Ngijems and Danoas alone have succeeded inpreserving their independence, never having been subdued even by the Aulad-Sliman. But in order to maintain the struggle they have had to shift theirquarters more than once, and in recent times they have acknowledged themselvesvassals of Wadai. The Danoas are settled in the south-east part of Kanem,grouped round the central station of Nguri in the woodlands some 24 miles fromthe shores of Lake Tsad. Phjsically speaking they differ in no respect from theKanem-bu, and like them speak an idiom closely related to the Kanuri; but theirtraditions connect them with the Manga nation living on the banks of the Yen inWest Bornu. The inhabitants of the Tsad islands, although for the most part belonging to. o ^ pn o KAXEM. 857 different races, are connected at least geographically with the populations ofKaneui. Lying in the immediate vicinity of the east coast, the shifting insulargroups are sufficiently accessible to afford a refuge to fugitives from the numerous Kanem-bu, Dazas, and others are here settled cither temporarilyor permanently, while hundreds of Arabs have for generations been cncaini)idround the inlet comprised between the Shari delta and the Bahr-el-Ghuzaleffluent. The Kuri, occupying some fifteen islands north of the Bahr-cl-Ghazal outHow,are regarded as the true aborigines of the archipelago, no traditions associatingthem with the mainland. They are of very dark complexion, tall and robustfigures, resembling in appearance and speech the Makari Negroes on the southside of the lake. By intermixture with Kanem-bu, Arabs, and others, they havebeen diversely modified, forming in the northern islands the subface of the Vediuasor Bud
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