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NUFI PEOPLE. 
prey of the slave-catcher. Their chief town, Buddu, has 
frequently been burned by the Filatahs in their predatory 
excursions. Higher up, is the flourishing town of Egga, 
the highest point to which the last Expedition ascended, 
about three hundred and thirty miles from the sea. 
It has but a small , territory. The large country of 
Yarriba is above and behind it. 
On the left bank, above the confluence, is the small 
territory of Kattam-Khrrafi. To the eastward of it, the 
large city of Toto, and the kingdom and populous city 
of Fandah. To the north-west, is the large and once 
flourishing kingdom of Nufi; inhabited by the most 
enterprising race of the interior. They are frank, good- 
humoured, and very faithful. The long-continuance of 
civil wars which have distracted their country, and 
the frequent Invasions of the Filatahs, have scattered 
them among all the surrounding nations, where they 
are the most active manufacturers and merchants. They 
are said never to be cast down by reverses of fortune, but 
to retain their industrious habits and cheerfulness of 
disposition under all ckcumstances. The women are 
chiefly employed in the petty retail trade about the 
countiy. If a Kafilah, to which a Nufi woman is 
attached, be pursued, she will rather be captured with 
the goods entrusted to her, than throw them away to aid 
her escape. 
Feuds in the royal family of Nufi have enabled the 
Filatahs, or as they are difterently called, Filani, Fellahs, 
or Fulahs, to seize on a large portion of this kingdom ; 
and they have settled at Rabbah, after having diivcn out 
