powerful prince. They are said to have come from the northward,
whichmayrnean ebben from Fouladou or Fouta-torro,
with the design «of propagating Islhm, and, having settled in
a part of Jallonkadou'j. to have given it the name of: Fouta-
jallo : they have there become numerous, and have extended
their power over the neighbouring countries. This account is.
difficult to reconcile with the statements of De Barros, who
pointed but the mountainous tracts near the source of the Rio
Grande as the kingdom of Temala, sovereign of the Fotili.
Temala ’reigned there, in 1534, and curried on war with Mandi-
Mansa, who was, at that time, king of the Mandingos. The
statements obtained by M. Golberry coincide with this relan„
tion. He says, that the Fulahs have spread themselves .from
the 4° north datitude to the southern banks of the-Senegal,'
and have founded many colonies,- which have arisen into:
kingdoms. He adds, that, on the northern pank of the MfeSu-
rado, these Negroes are known under the name of Foules br
that of Sou sous. They are to be found also under the same
name on the mountains in the vicinity of Sierra Leone, on
the Sherbro, the Rio Sestos, at Capé Monte, and ..even at
Cape ^Palmas. To the north ward, there ds a colony
Fulahs, which, on the borders of the' Senegal, have founded a
kingdom of Negroes known under the appellation of Houles or
Peuls, and who inhabit the banks of the river along an extent
of one hundred and thirty leagues. “ But the principal body
of the nation,” says M. Golberry, “ under the ffroper name of
Fulahs, possess an extensive territory towards the sources of
the Rio Grande, under the 10° north latitude, and between,
the 5° and T3° east longitude, from the Isle of Ferro.
In the present state of -our information, it cannot be ascertained
whether the original abode of the Fülah race was. in
Füladfi, on the northern part of the high region of Senegam-
bia, or further southward in the mountainous tracts near the
Rio Grande. We only know, that they have been settled
for some centuries in various tribés in many parts of the' elevated
country to the southward of the Senegal. From thence
hordes' of the same, race have descended from time to time
Golberry, vól. i. p. 71.
info the lower region towards the west, where, they wander in
the forests pf"the Bourba-Iolof, and likewise towards the east
info the interior of Africa,-, where %ey, have become powerful
under the^ designation of Felatahs orFalatiya.
Physical Characters of,, the Fulahs.
: / The Fulahs have generally been tèrmed Negroes or Blacks ;
Abut it has been occasionally intimated that theparei.of lightér
colour than the neighbouring^ races.- According to Park,/ftp
-Fulahs rank themselves among' white -people, and fhpk upon
the- other nations as their inferiors/V Mr. Park distinguishes
four kinds o f,people in the countries which he- traversed in
his, -firstV journey in Africa, namely, Mandingpsy^Iploops,
L©lofs;\and Fulahs. He says, that the two former have moist
of- what is termed the .Negro character^ The Iolofe, on thë
other hand, though in colour jet black, have i^turéê. like
those?!.of Europeans. And the Fulahs have- small features,
and soft, silky hair, without either the thick lips, or the Crisp
wool icommon to Negroes. He adds, that they are not black,
but of a-tawny colour, which is lighter and jabareyellow in
some/states than in others/
Dr. Winterbottomf who was physician the coiohy óf
Sierra Leone, assures us that, though?/ the Fulahs’are*TeSs
black than- some, of their neighbours, their complexion can
only be regarded as an intermediate, shade between that;of
the darkest African and the Moor. , He thinks Major Ren-
nell-s, conjecture, that the Fülahs.ówere the Leucaethiopes,
or. White Ethiopians;,placed by Pliny and Ptolemy-in North
Africa, scarcely probablei The. idea/, df? a nation of white
Negroes in Africa most , probably arose from the accidental
observation of Albindssamong the black races,, which also
suggested to the learned Haller the same opinion. Haller
says, in his Elements of Physiology, ;l$jsunt in mstuosis libs
terris integrse nationes alb&ï/’ As a further proof that the
Fdlahs are not so white as it has-been supposed, Dr. Winter-
bottom alludes to the fact, that Mr. Watt and his brother,
the celebrated travellers to Timhu, found that a mulatto had