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tfwift ; their look is stern, and their whole de* 
meanour warlike, Their dress consists of a short 
shirt and breeches, both of a dark blue colour, 
and they wind a black cloth round their head 
like a helmet, which covers all except their eyes. 
Most of them are black, though without the 
negro features ; but the tribe called Tagama, 
situated on the Niger, is at least comparatively 
white. This tribe differs also from the rest of the 
race in not being Mahommedans. They were 
described to Horneman as Nazari, being the term 
by which, in Africa, Christians are usually desig- 
nated. He asserts, however, that he found the term 
applied generally to infidels, not to Christians only, 
but to Pagans ; in which last sense he conceives it 
to attach to these Tuarick. This, however, is evi- 
dently the same report which was collected, by 
Jackson and Park, respecting a Christian nation 
situated on the Niger. 
Horneman did not gain much information re- 
specting Tombuctoo, between which city and Fez- 
zan there is little communication. Houssa, called 
by him Haussa, is represented, not as a single king- 
dom, but as a general name applied to the whole 
track situated along the eastern part of the Niger. 
It comprehends, according to him, Cashna, Daura, 
Cano, (probably the ancient Gana,) Solan, Noro, 
Nyffe, Cabi, Zamfara, and Guber. Most of these 
kingdoms are tributary, either to Bornou or A.s~ 
