APPEKDIX. XCi 
The kingdom of the Foulahs before mentioned, situated between the upper 
part of the Gambia river, and the coast of Serra Leona, and along the Rio 
Grande, has also a Mahomedan sovereign, but the bulk of the people ap* 
pear to be of the ancient religion. It has been already said, that although they 
are a black people, they are less black than the Negroes, generally, and have 
neither crisped hair, nor thick lips : as also that they have a language dis- 
tinct from the Mandinga. From these circumstances, added to that of situa- 
tion, they appear clearly to be the Leuccethiopes of Ptolemy and Pliny. The 
former places them in the situation occupied by the Foulahs ; that is, in the 
parallel of 9 degrees north ; having to the north, the mountains of Ryssadius, 
which separate the courses of the Stachir and Nia rivers (Gambia and Rio 
Grande), and which therefore answer to the continuation of the great belt of 
high land, in our geography ; in which there is, moreover, another point of 
agreement, the Caphas of Ptolemy, being the Caffaba of the map.* 
Ptolemy, by the name, evidendy meant to describe a people less black 
than the generality of the Ethiopians; and hence it may be gathered, that 
this nation had been traded with, and that some notices respecting it, had 
been communicated to him. It may also be remarked, that the navigation 
of Han NO, terminated on this coast ; probably at Sherbro' river, or sound. 
And as this was also the term of the knowledge of Ptolemy, it may be justly 
suspected that this part of the coast was described from Carthaginian mate- 
rial s.t 
Those who have perused the Journal of Messrs. Watt and Winterbottom, 
through the Foulah country, in 1794, and recollect how flattering a picture 
they give of the urbanity and hospitality of the Foulahs, will be gratified on 
finding that this nation was known and distinguished from the rest of the 
Ethiopians, at a remote period of antiquity .^J; 
* The Soliieniii of Ptolemy may also be meant for the Solimani of Mr. Park. 
t And it may also have been the scene of the traffic mentioned in page Ixxxvii ; as Dr. 
Wadstrom speaks of such a custom in this quarter, at the present day. 
t Pliny (lib. v. c. 8.) also speaks of the Leucatbiopes, but seems to place them on 
this side of Nigritia. May it not be, that certain tribes of Foulahs were then established, 
as at present, along the Senegal river ! 
