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 Camel and Giraffe 97 COLOUR. The European classes all natives together as " black men." The native himself recognizes many diifferent shades of colour. The down-river native of Asaba or Onicha is about the only man whom all agree in calling black. There is a peculiar shade between black and red known as wanhan tarwada. The tarwada is a fish, and it is the grey appearance of its skin when washed which represents the colour. CAMEL AND GIRAFFE. OxE of the first things that strikes any one who is interested in the Hausa names for animals is that the camel should be called rahumi and the giraffe the raliicmi^n daji. Hausa alone compares the giraffe to the camel, though some of the pagan tribes to the south have borrowed both names. Now the camel is an introduced animal, and the names by which practically all the tribes east of the Niger call it are corruptions of the Arabic al jamaL jJlI, our own word camel. fSarra langamm Bagarmi luguma t Sarra, S.E. of Lake Tchad, on Ghari. H
 * Nyillim luguma
 * Nyillim, a tribe on the Logoiie.