Handbook to the ethnographical collections . the history AFRICA 237 and ethnology of thenegro tribes of thesouth, with whom theyhave mingled to formtribes of every shade ofcomplexion. Whitest of thesemongrel tribes are theTibbu of Tibetsi andsome of the Fula, apeople originally ofSenegal, but now set tiedas far east as Dar sections of theFula have so mixedwith the Songhai,Hausa, and other negrotribes that Fula ofevery shade are nowfound. Much has beenwiitten about thispeo2>le : they have beenidentified as Hamites,as the relics of the shep-herd kings of Egypt,as descendants of theAn
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . the history AFRICA 237 and ethnology of thenegro tribes of thesouth, with whom theyhave mingled to formtribes of every shade ofcomplexion. Whitest of thesemongrel tribes are theTibbu of Tibetsi andsome of the Fula, apeople originally ofSenegal, but now set tiedas far east as Dar sections of theFula have so mixedwith the Songhai,Hausa, and other negrotribes that Fula ofevery shade are nowfound. Much has beenwiitten about thispeo2>le : they have beenidentified as Hamites,as the relics of the shep-herd kings of Egypt,as descendants of theAncient Egyptians, andas the lost tribes of theJews. But there seemslittle doubt that theyare really of Libyanextraction. They firstappear in history assettled in the extremewest near the Jolof(Senegal), who are nowquite negroid, but inearly times regardedthemselves as a whitepeople and were alwaysconsidered by the earlyArabs to be of Fulablood. This much iscertain, that their lui- Fici. 215.—.Stoiitilc figurefrom MfiulilaiHl, . 238 AFRICA grations have been from west to east, and any theory whichderives this people from the east must rest on a purely conjec-tural westward movement assumed to have taken place in pre-
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