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so they wait patiently, believing that one fine day he will 

 pack up and be off. 



The Hausas, who form a proportion of the populations of 

 these Fulani towns are older in the land than the Fulani, 



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who conquered them. They are most probably an offshoot 

 of the Arab race who have changed under the blood influence 

 of the peoples among whom they have come. They have the 

 Arab's love of travel and aptitude for trading, and are gifted 

 with his cleverness to a marked degree, being by far the most 

 educated and intelHgent of the races of Nigeria. Hausa is 

 the trade language of the country, and its derivation from 

 Arabic seems to show in many Arabic words, and in all the 

 numerals over twenty, which it would appear were beyond 

 the usual range of reckonings in the markets and so have 

 been preserved unchanged. Probably their migrations were 



