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The Poulas likewise made an irruption into the regions 
situated more to the east, for they occupy Massina, and 
several districts beyond Tombuctoo ; Kassoun, where they 
speak the Manding-o language ; Ouassellon, where they are 
Pagans ; Sangarari, Bondou, and Fouta Jallon ; which is the 
extent of their conquests to the south. They have every 
where united with the black people whom they have conquered, 
and thus their race has almost entirely disappeared, and given 
place to another, composed of reddish or black men, who have 
fixed dwellings, and have partly adopted the Negro manners. 
The family of the Deliankés possessed the sovereign 
authority amongst the Torodos, when they became masters of 
the Fouta country. The chief, who bore the title of Amtoro. 
exercised the supreme power. This family was Pagan, and 
behaved in the most tyrannical manner, especially towards 
Mahometans. A revolution, caused by the cruel despotism of 
the Amtoro, produced a change in the form of government, to 
which Africa cannot atford a parallel. Towards the end of the 
eighteenth century, Abdoul, who was nothing more than a Ma- 
hometan priest, raised the standard of rebellion. An enthusiastic 
love of liberty, and religious fanaticism, rendered his little 
troop invincible ; he was victorious, and having made the Am- 
toro prisoner, exposed him a whole day to the heat of the sun. 
and publicly stripping him of the marks of royalty, reduced 
him to the condition of a private subject. The Deliankés, 
beaten on all sides, fled to Kaarta, where they excited, and 
