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followed the more or less fertile belt of bush and river, that 

 marks the road taken by the caravans to Mecca through 



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the centre of Africa, till they found themselves at length 

 in the fertile plains of Nigeria. 



To horsemen like the Fulani, the more gentle people of 

 the plains fell an easy conquest, while the hill tribes, whose 

 natural strongholds presented greater difficulties against 



