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Title: The people of Africa. A series of papers on their character, condition, and future prospects
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Schieffelin, Henry M Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877 Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866
Subjects: Blacks Indigenous peoples
Publisher: New York, A.D.F. Randolph & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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put in at the top. Atthe bottom is an opening through which the slag andother impurities are withdrawn. Thursday, December 3d. 1868, we started fromBallatah. The direction was N.E., and parallel to arange of very high hills, called the Yukkah hills.These hills are from seven hundred to one thousandfeet high, and are various^ composed of granite, ironore, and a reddish clay, which, from the steep slopesnear the top, had shelved down in many places. Friday, 4th of December, 1868, we rested at Yuk-kah. This town stands at the foot of a range of highhills of the same name. It is the last Boozie town,and the nearest to the Mandingo country. Thesehills, called * Yukkah by the Boozies, and Fomahby the Mandingoes, take a definite direction N.E.They are the highest range, and form a marked andacknowledged boundary between the Boozie andMandingo territories. At the foot of this range areseated a number of towns, Boozie and Mandingo. THE MANDINGOES. The Mandingoes are an Arabic-speaking Moliam-
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illiiimiiiiniiii li I .iiiiiiiiili CONDITION OF THE AFRICAN FIELD. 119 medau tribe, and notable traders, who travel overmost of the countiy between their land and the sea,and exert a strong influence over all the other tribes. Thej have made considerable advance in education.Mr. Anderson mentions the fact that a Mandino-opriest, with whom he was brought in contact, took anAiabic grammar Avhich Mr. Anderson had with him,and showed himself thoroughly versed in all the dis-tinctions of person, gender, number, etc., in the con-jugation of a verb. These j)eople, though Mohammedans, deserve ourhighest respect. They have cordially and honestlyembraced the highest form of religion which was with-in their reach. Professor Blyden bears witness thatthe progress of Islam among them presents the sameinstances of real and eager mental conflict, of mindsin honest transition, of careful comparison and re-flection that have been formed in other communitieswhere new aspects of truth and fresh considerapeopleofafricase00schi

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