Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and SoudanWiley and Putnam, 1844 - 107 pages |
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Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan: In Relation to the ... William Brown Hodgson Affichage du livre entier - 1844 |
Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan: In Relation to the ... William Brown Hodgson Affichage du livre entier - 1844 |
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Adelung affinity Afus aith Algiers Aman Amekran Amgar ancient Arabic Ayur Barbary Bello Berber language Bornou called camel Canary Islands Central Africa Christianity civilization Clapperton Copt Coptic D'Avezac date tree Delaporte dialect Egypt Egzer Elephant Eregeiah ethnographic Ezee Fellatahs Foulahs Geographic Ghadamis Ghoor-i goat grammatical guage Guanches hair Haoussa head Hodgson Hornemann horse hundred Ibn Khaldun idiom inhabitants inscription JAMES HAMILTON COUPER Jennay Kabyles Kianah kingdoms Kitchee Koran Kounah Leo Africanus Libyan Macbrair manuscript memoir Merou Mohammedan moral Morocco mountain Mozab Mozabeeah names nations of Soudan natives negro races Negroland Niger NUMERALS Numidian oäses oäsis origin pagan Paris Phoenician political present published Quorra religion remarks river Sahara Samuel George Morton says Schön Sergoo Siwah slave trade Society of New-York Sultan Teït Tenbokto thou Tibbo tion tongue town travellers tribes Tuarycks Tuggurt Tumbootu vocabulary WADRE Wadreag whilst woman words Wurgelah
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Page 45 - On another occasion, he assured Clapperton that he was able to put an effectual stop to the Slave Trade; and expressed, with much earnestness of manner, his anxiety to enter into permanent relations of trade and friendship with England. At the close of Clapperton's visit, Bello gave him a letter to the king of England to the same purport as the conversation which had taken place between them. These offers on the part of the Sultan of the Felatahs must be held to be of great importance. He is the...
Page 38 - ... 500 miles. They extend from the Atlantic Ocean, from the mouth of the Senegal and Senegambia on the west, to the kingdoms of...
Page 39 - The Foulahs are not negroes. They differ essentially from the negro race, in all the characteristics which are marked by physical anthropology. They may be said to occupy the intermediate space betwixt the Arab and the Negro.
Page 58 - Tom, whose African name was Sali-bul-Ali, was purchased about the year 1800, by my father, from the Bahama islands, to which he had been brought from Anamaboo. His industry, intelligence, and honesty, soon brought him into notice, and he was successively advanced, until he was made head driver of this plantation, in 1816. He has continued in that station ever since, having under him...
Page 40 - In the midst of the negro races, there stands out a metive population, of tawny or copper color, prominent nose, small mouth and oval face, which ranks itself among the white races, and asserts itself to be descended from Arab fathers, and Taurodo mothers. Their crisped hair, and even woolly though long, justifies their classification among the...
Page 42 - Wherever the Foulah has wandered, the Pagan idolatry of the negro has been overthrown ; the barbarous Fetish and greegree have been abandoned ; anthropophagy and cannibalism have been suppressed. Thus the Foulahs are now exercising a powerful influence upon the moral and social condition of Central Africa. I do not doubt that they are destined to be the great instrument in the future civilization of Africa, and the consequent suppression of the external Atlantic slave trade.
Page 59 - He has quickness of apprehension, strong powers of combination and calculation, a sound judgment, a singularly tenacious memory, and what is more rare in a slave, the faculty of forethought. He possesses great veracity and honesty. He is a strict Mahometan ; abstains from spirituous liquors, and keeps the various fasts, particularly that of the Rhamadan.
Page 41 - ... missionaries of Islam among the Pagan negro tribes. Where they have conquered, they have forced the adoption of the Koran by the sword; and whilst pursuing quietly their pastoral occupation, they become schoolmasters (maalims), and thus propagate the doctrines and precepts of Islam.
Page 47 - I confess, I trust infinitely more (according to the sound principles of those, who ever have at any time meliorated the state of mankind) to the effect and influence of religion, than to all the rest of the regulations put together.