Africa and its inhabitants . etal from tho iron ores, smelting and forging it into implements of husl)andry,utensils, knives, and weajwus. Tho jewellers lumdlo the precious metals withgreat taste; the builders erect solid and commodious dwellings; the tanners andworkers in leather prepare excellent sheaths and many other articles iu thatmaterial; lastly, with the native cotton the weavers produce fabrics almost as fineas muslin. As warriors the Fulahs hold their own against all other African races. In U8 WEST AFEICA. time of war all ablo ndulls march to bafilc, and in (heir expeditions thoy gi
Africa and its inhabitants . etal from tho iron ores, smelting and forging it into implements of husl)andry,utensils, knives, and weajwus. Tho jewellers lumdlo the precious metals withgreat taste; the builders erect solid and commodious dwellings; the tanners andworkers in leather prepare excellent sheaths and many other articles iu thatmaterial; lastly, with the native cotton the weavers produce fabrics almost as fineas muslin. As warriors the Fulahs hold their own against all other African races. In U8 WEST AFEICA. time of war all ablo ndulls march to bafilc, and in (heir expeditions thoy giveproof of great strategic skill. Besides tuo arms common to the Nigritian jjeoples,they have iron spears with leather-bound luuulles, often wrdiight with great tliey have slaves, employed in tlie liouses and as field-labourers, itredounds to their honour that they have niver taken part in the slave rare circumstances criminals were sold instead of being put to death, and a Fiir. .59.—FrLAH ^^^i-^fr few nomad Fulahs were captured on the confines of their territory; but theywere scarcely represented amongst the gangs transported to the New World. The recent migrations and invasions of the Fulahs are recorded in history; butwhere were they settled in the early period of Islam ? Are they Negroes, whohave acquired a fair complexion and regular features by crossings with the Arabsand Berbers ? Are they kinsmen of the Nubian Barabras, or of the ancientEgyptians, whom they resemble in so many respects ? Have they migrated fromthe southern slopes of Mauritania in company with those Garamantes who carved TILE 1^9 the images of their zebus on the face of tlie rocks in Iho w-ilderncss ? Or is theirorigin to be sought beyond the continent, in Mahiysia or amongst the gipsies whomigrated centuries ago from India ? For all these views have been advancedwithout heli)ing much towards the solution of this curious ethnological problem. Nor lias Ih
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