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conjecture. “The Fulah pronouns have striking 
analogies with those of the Yoruba, Accra, Ashantee, 
and Timmanee, and even of the great Kaffir class 
of dialects, which reaches from the equator to the 
Cape,” wrote the late learned E. Norris, in his 
“ Introduction to the Grammar of the Fulah 
Language” (London : Harrison, 1854). 
According to the people of the upper river the 
Fa^ were expelled by the Bati or Batti—not “ Bari ” 
as it has been written—from their ancient seats; and 
they are still pushing them seawards. The bushmen 
are said to live seven to ten short marches (seventy 
to a hundred miles) to the east, and are described 
by Mr. Tippet, whom they have visited, as a fine, 
tall, slender, and light-skinned people, who dress 
like the Fa^, but without so much clothing, and 
who sharpen the teeth of both sexes. Dr. Barth 
heard of the Bati, and Herr Petermann’s map de¬ 
scribes them 1 as “ Pagans, reported to be of a 
white colour, and of beautiful shape, to live in 
houses made of clay, to wear cloth of their own 
making, and to hold a country from which a moun¬ 
tain is visible to the south-west, and close to the 
sea.” The range in question may be the Long 
Qua (Kwa), which continues the Camarones block 
to the north-east, and the Batis may have passed 
south-westward from Southern Adamawa. 
1 Hutchinson’s “Ten Years’ Wanderings,” p. 319. 
