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will be gratified to see how differently these people 
treated me on my return from Fumbind. 
While our party was rather quietly and sullenly 
sitting near the tent, a number of Fulbe, who had 
been staying in this district for some time, came to 
pay their respects to me. They were a very dimi- 
nutive set of people, and excepting general traits 
of resemblance, and language, were unlike those 
proud fellow countrymen of theirs in the west ; but I 
afterwards found that the Fulbe in the eastern part 
of A'damawa are generally of this description, while 
those about the capital have a far more noble and 
dignified appearance. I think this may be not so 
much a mark of a difference of tribe, as a consequence 
of the low circumstances of those settled at a great 
distance from the seat of government, who, being still 
engaged in struggling for their subsistence, have not 
raised themselves from their original condition of 
humble cattle-breeders, or " berrorqji," to the proud 
rank of conquerors and religious reformers. Their 
colour certainly was not the characteristic rhubarb- 
colour of the Fiita Piillo, nor the deep black of the 
Torode, but was a greyish sort of black, approaching 
what the Frenchmen call the chocolat-au~lait colour, 
while their small features wanted the expressiveness 
which those of the light Piillo generally have. They 
all wore shirts, which however were deficient in that 
cleanliness which in general is characteristic of this 
race. These simple visitors might perhaps have 
proved very interesting companions, if we had been 
