80 IOLOFS : SERRERES : SARACOLETS.
Iolof’ Words». Serreres’ Words.
Heart Col Cod.
Skin Derre Dôle. .
Gold Vourousse Vourousse.
Silver - Câline Câline.
Ox Nague Naque.
Cow Nagguer Naque reve.
Bull Jacque Gochi.
Cock Sec ■ Sich.
Old: JVIaquiette Nagoyie.
If the language of the Iolofs is, as it would appear, a
dialect cognate with that of the Serreres, the probable inference
■ is, that the former people did not % originate from a
distant part of Africa. The Iolofs and Serreres were, probably,
tribes ofHhe same stock; both of them ancient inhabitants
of the country where they were found nearly three centuries
ago by the Portuguese navigators.
3. Of:the Serawoolli or Saracolets.
The people termed Saracolets by French writers, but'who
name themselves, according to M. Golberry, ''Serawoolli^ inhabit
the country of Galam or Kajaaga. Their language' is
understood in the kingdoms of Kasson, Kaarta, Ludamar,
and the northern part of Bambarra. Park, who makes this
observation, describes them as Negroes of a dark brown 0'r
bright black complexion. Golberry says, that they arè
divided into a number of tribes; the independent prirfces of
which have formed among themselves a sort of federal republic
for mutual protection, under the king of Galam, who is
the chief.* Galam is a, place of great resort, and theseat of
a principal slave-market in the interior. Their language is
said to Be very guttural; and it would seem, from Park’s
cursory observations, to be a peculiar one, though some of
the numerals are Mandingo.f
Paragraph C.—Of the Negro States on the Gambia, and the
Native Tribes between that River and Cape Palmas.
The Iplof countries are cut off to the southward by the
river Gambia, the banks of which are divided from its mouth
* Golberry, i. 272. •J* Vater, in Mithridates.
to the cataracts of Barraconda where it descends from the
highlands, a space of two* hundred and fifty leagues, into a
great number of petty states or kingdoms, partly belongin^to
Mandirigo colonies from the upper countries, and partly to
native tribes. M. Durand enumerates* eight of these kingdoms
on each share of the riyep;S!bordèring immediately on
its banks, and there are several others a little further removed
from them. On the northern) or right bank of the Gambia,
are the states of Barre or Barra, a Mandingo kingdom,
reaching also northward along the sëa-ëohst, Guiocanda,
Badisson or Badibou, Salum already mentioned, Gnianis-jL,
Ciouhan, Gniani, and Ouli; behind these.arc the Mandjngp
states, already mentioned, of Kollar, Lower arid Uppjiçr Yani,
Bambouk, and, higher up the river than Barraconda, Tenda
and Neola. To the southward of the Gambia are the *
.dom of Combo, the empire of Foigni, Geregè% Kiam, Geagra,
Gnamena, Kiaconda, Toumana, and Cantor.*" '
^Ve have no exact information respecting ;the tribes which, s
besides the Mandingos, constitute respectively the population
of all these states. The inhabitants may b|* Reckoned
among civilized Negroes, having been improved more or ^es^ '
by adopting* the customs of the Mohammedan Mandihgbfe,
and partly by trade and agriculture.
Among thesavage tribes of people on;the southern side of
the Gambia, and from thence to Gape PalmaS). the following
may be enumerated as the most remarkable-;.
1. The Felfippes or Feloups.
The Feloups are a savage nation, who inhabit ^forests
near the banks of the Casamança, and the upper course ofv
the Vintain, a river which falls into the Gambia from the
south ; their chief town or village has the name of Vintain.
Golberry informs us, that their horde consists of sixty or
seventy villages, situated in woods, from which these savages
scarcely ever emerge ; their number i^'^omputed to be about
50,000 persons. The Feloups have, a language of their own,
which is said to be very barbarous, f They âre indolent, sullen,
and vindictive, their enmities being transmitted to géne-
* Durand’s Voy. au Sénégal, tom. i. c. 6.
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