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HORNEMAN'S TRAVELS. 
differing both as to manners and external appear- 
ance, but all speaking the same language. The 
most powerful, the Kolluvi, have made themselves 
masters of Asben, which ranks next to Bornou 
among the kingdoms of interior Africa. Most of 
the trade between Fezzan and the countries on 
the Niger is carried on by this people. They are 
thin, rather tall ; their step is at once steady and 
swift ; their look is stern, and their whole demean- 
our 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 Maho- 
metans. They were described to Horneman as 
Nazari, being the term by which, in Africa, 
Christians are usually designated. He asserts, 
however, that he found the term applied gene- 
rally to Pagans as well as Christians ; in which 
sense he conceives it to attach to these Tuarick. 
This, however, is evidently 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 
