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 coherence. They belong to diverse stocks, broken into numerous states, kingdoms, centralised or federal republics, religious communities, nomad tribes, scattered family groups. The central Futa-Jallon highlands are occupied chiefly by Fulahs,

a swarthy race not to be confounded with the Negroes proper. Round about them. on the sea-coast and on the upper affluents of the Senegal and Gambia, dwell