INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
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CHAPTER II. 
Description of the Feloops, the jfalqffs, the Foulahs, and Man- 
dingoes. — Some Account of the Trade betzveen the Nations of 
Europe and the Natives of Africa by the way of the Gambia, 
and between the native hihabitants of the Coast and the Na*- 
Hons of the interior Countries — their Mode of selling and 
buying, &c. 
The natives of the countries bordering on the Gambia, though 
distributed into a great many distinct governments, may, I 
think, be divided into four great classes ; the Feloops, the Jaloffs, 
the Foulahs, and the Mandingoes. Among all these nations, the 
religion of Mahomet has made, and continues to make, consi- 
derable progress ; but, in most of them, the body of the people, 
both free and enslaved, persevere in maintaining the blind but 
harmless superstitions of their ancestors, and are called by the 
Mahomedans kafirs, or infidels. 
Of the Feloops, I have little to add to what has been observed 
concerning them in the former Chapter. They are of a gloomy 
disposition, and are supposed never to forgive an injury. They 
are even said to transmit their quarrels as deadly feuds to their 
posterity; insomuch that, a son considers it as incumbent on 
him, from a just sense of filial obligation, to become the avenger 
of his deceased father's wrongs. If a man loses his life in one 
of those sudden quarrels, which perpetually occur at their feasts^ 
