Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE FULANI The Hausa and the Fulani—An ancient civilization—How the Fulani came—First the gipsy—Othman Fodio—A religious war—The Fulani Administration—A prophecy and its fulfilment—Why the people accepted British rule as inevitable—The capture of Sokoto. In the Hausa States, up the Niger River, there are two peoples. These two peoples live, not each in its own territory, not each in a distinct part of the country, but side by side, each in every part of it. Wherever the Hausa is, there also is the Fulani; wherever the Fulani is, there also is the Hausa. They are two distinct races, but they live together. In some towns there is the Hausa quarter and there is the Fulani quarter; but even in these you find many of each race living outside the quarters in huts and compounds built next door to one another. They intermingle freely in all the natural intercourse of daily life, but there are two languages. They are only just beginning to intermarry to any considerable extent, so there are two types of faces. There is the flat nose of the darker-skinned Hausa, and there is the straight nose with the Oriental hook at the end of it of the lighter-skinned Fulani. The Hausa is the farmer, the spinner, the weaver, the dyer, the artificer, the hunter, the trader; the Fulani is the organizer, the law-officer, the tax-gatherer, the priest. Each race thinks itself superior, and each race in its heart despises the other. The Hausa tills the soil, 19 2—2 spins cotton, weaves it into thin strips to be sewn together into flowing robes of many colours; spends weeks patiently adorning his clothes with needlework patterns ; tans leather and works it up into highly ornamental articles of daily use; hammers household utensils out of tin, brass, and copper; carves gourds and paddl...