. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. EXCURSION OF CHIEFS WIFK, EQUATORIAL AFRICA. CHAPTEE )e Central ^outiaiifsir. African empires—The kingdom of Bornu—Mahomet El-Kanemi—Kuka—Difficulties of barter The Bornuese or Kanuri—Slavery—Government—Signs of distinction—The Shuwa Arabs—The Marghi—Adamawa—Baghirmi—Description of people—Currency—Negroes of SouthernBaghirmi—Marriage customs—Religion—Kingdom of Wadai—The
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. EXCURSION OF CHIEFS WIFK, EQUATORIAL AFRICA. CHAPTEE )e Central ^outiaiifsir. African empires—The kingdom of Bornu—Mahomet El-Kanemi—Kuka—Difficulties of barter The Bornuese or Kanuri—Slavery—Government—Signs of distinction—The Shuwa Arabs—The Marghi—Adamawa—Baghirmi—Description of people—Currency—Negroes of SouthernBaghirmi—Marriage customs—Religion—Kingdom of Wadai—The Mabas-Government ofWadai—Fulahs or Fellatahs—Gando and Sokoto—Earths description of Kano—The Haussas—Feudalism—Moassina—Former Songhay kingdom— npHE vast and thickly-peopled domains of-L tlie central Soudanese rulers liave beenlargely made known to ns in modern timesby the celebrated German travel- Africanlers Barth, Eohlfs, and Nachtigal. their accounts of Bornu, Baghirmi, andAVadai, and of the Fulah empires furtherwest, they have done much to transform ourideas as to the powers of organisation, andeven of civilisation, of the negro have shown us that far from Europeand Asia, with its various Aryan, Semiticand Mongoloid types of civilisation, exhaust-ing the possibilities of civil politj^, there is a 6o6 THE INHABITANTS OF AFRICA. complex attempt at government, and even a kind of culture, in Africa, otwhich we had little conception. Approacliing Bornu and Lake Chad from the Sahara, a strikingchange comes over the scene. The country becomes as fertile andprolific as it was previously barren. Mimosa forests and grassy tractsoccupy the border-lands. The hippopotamus and crocodile are to befound in the lake
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