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CHAP. XXXI V. 
A'DAMAWA. MOHAMMEDAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE HEART OF 
CENTRAL- AFRICA. 
We had now reached the border of A'damawa, the 
country after which I had been panting so long, and 
of which I had heard so many interesting accounts, a 
Mohammedan kingdom engrafted upon a mixed stock 
of pagan tribes, — the conquest of the valorous and 
fanatic Piillo chieftain, A'dama, over the great pagan 
kingdom of Fumbina. 
I was musing over the fate of the native races of 
this country, when the governor, with a numerous 
suite, came to pay me a visit. Neither he nor any of 
his companions were dressed with any degree of ele- 
gance, or even cleanliness. I had endeavoured in vain 
to obtain information from my companions as to the 
period when the Fulbe had begun to emigrate into this 
country ; but they were unable to give me any other 
answer, than that they had been settled in the country 
from very ancient times, and that not only the fathers 
but even the grandfathers of the present generation 
had inhabited the same region as cattle-breeders, 
" berroroji." Neither the governor nor any of his 
people were able to give me more precise informa- 
