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mass, to the height of 6000 ft. The country, which is very fertile and is covered with luxuriant herbage, has many villages and a considerable See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population. See also:

Durra, ground-nuts, yams and See also:

cotton are the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal products, and the See also:

palm and See also:

BANANA

banana abound.

Elephants are numerous and See also:

ivory is exported. In the eastern See also:

PART

part of the country the See also:

RHINOCEROS

rhinoceros is met with, and the See also:

rivers swarm with crocodiles and with a curious mammal called the ayu, bearing some resemblance to the See also:

seal. Adamawa is named after a See also:

FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS)

Fula Emir Adama, who in the See also:

early years of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century conquered the country. To the See also:

HAUSA

Hausa and Bornuese it was previously known as Fumbina (or South-land). The inhabitants are mainly pure negroes such as the Durra, See also:

BATTA

Batta and Dekka, speaking different See also:

LANGUAGES

languages, and all fetish-worshippers. They are often of a very See also:

low type, and some of the tribes are cannibals. Slave-trading was still active among them in the early years of the loth century. The Fula (q.v.), who first came into the country about the 15th century as See also:

NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)

nomad herdsmen, are found chiefly in the valleys, the See also:

pagan tribes holding the mountainous districts. There are also in the country See also:

numbers of Hausa, who are chiefly traders, as well as See also:

ARABS

Arabs and See also:

KANURI, or BERIBERI

Kanuri from See also:

BORNU

Bornu. The emir of Yola, in the See also:

period of Fula See also:

lord-See also:

SHIP

ship, claimed rights of See also:

SUZERAINTY

suzerainty over the whole of Adamawa; but the country, since the subjection of the Fula (c. 'goo), has consisted of a number of small states under the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the British and Germans. Garua on the upper Benue, 65 m. east of Yola, is the headquarters of the German See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration for the region and the chief See also:

trade centre in the north of Adamawa.

Yoko is one of the principal towns in the south of the country, and in the centre is the important town of Ngaundere. After Heinrich See also:

Barth, who explored the country in 1851, the first traveller to penetrate Adamawa was the German, E. R. See also:

FLEGEL, EDWARD ROBERT (1855-1886)

Flegel (1882). It has since been traversed by many expeditions, notably that of See also:

Baron von Uechtritz and Dr Siegfried Passarge (1893-1894). An interesting See also:

account of Adamawa, its peoples and See also:

HISTORY

history, is given by Heinrich Barth in his Travels in North and Central Africa (new edition, See also:

LONDON

London, 18 0), and later See also:

INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information is contained in S. Passarge's Adamawa (See also:

Berlin, 1895).

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