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Chap. LVII. 
of the Fullan or Fiilbe *, although at the present 
time the terms " Jolof " and u Piillo " seem to be 
used in opposition, the one meaning a person of black, 
the other an individual of red complexion. 
It is this element of the Torode in particular which 
causes such a great variety in the type of the Fiilbe 
community, the Torode being in general of tall 
stature and strong frame, large features, and of very 
black complexion, while the other sections of that 
tribe are alwa} 7 s distinguished by a tinge of red or 
copper colour. 
But besides the Torode, who, as I have said, in 
most cases as well in Fiita as in Sokoto, at present 
form the ruling aristocracy, there are many other 
nationalities which have been absorbed in this great 
conquering nation, and which, on the contrary, are 
rather degraded. The most interesting among these 
latter, at least in the more eastern tracts occupied by 
the Fiilbe, are certainly the Jawambe, as they are 
called by the Fiilbe, but rather, as they call them- 
selves, Zoghoran, or as they are named by the Hausa 
people, Zoromawa. This tribe, which we find at 
present quite absorbed by the Fellani, and, at least 
in the provinces of Hausa and Kebbi, reduced to the 
occupation of mere brokers, we still find, during the 
* He says of the Jolof that their character is distinguished 
greatly from that of the other Fullan or Fulbe : — 
See Journal of the Leipsic Oriental Soc. ix. p. 536. 
