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population of 1,500,000. The province, like that of Bauchi, is traversed by mountainous regions. It possesses valuable forests and many fertile river valleys. Native products include See also:

RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber, See also:

palm kernels and beni See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed. See also:

Cotton is grown extensively. Until the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 18th See also:

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

century Nassarawa appears to have been peopled by many native tribes of a See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive type. About 1750 an important See also:

pagan tribe, the Igbira, came from the See also:

south-See also:

west across the See also:

Niger and established two See also:

RIVAL

rival kingdoms in the western portion of the province. Later the native inhabitants of Zaria, driven before the See also:

FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS)

Fula, came from the See also:

north and occupied the central portion of Nassarawa. Later still (about 1840) certain Fula of Zaria themselves conquered portions of the province, founded Keffi, spread as far as the Benue in the south-west corner and occupied the See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

DISTRICT

district of Abuja in the west.

Fula also made a See also:

settlement at the town of Nassarawa and at Darroro in the N.E. A See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony from See also:

BORNU

Bornu entered the province and founded the important town of Lafia Berebere in the eastern district. As a result of these movements the aboriginal tribes were driven into the hilly regions of the S.E. and N.E. The See also:

MUNSHI, or MOONSHI

Munshi, a truculent and See also:

hardy See also:

PEOPLE

people, hold a portion of the northern bank of the Benue, and the Kagoro and Attakar tribes hold the hilly See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country to the N.E., through which the road passes from Keffi and Lafia to the Bauchi high-lands. Before the British occupation the See also:

state of Nassarawa had become a partially subdued Fula emirate, exercising doubtful sway over the native pagans and paying a scarcely less doubtful See also:

ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance on its own See also:

PART

part to the Fula ruler of Zaria. The riverain tribes of Nassarawa were among the first to break into open aggression against the British See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration established at See also:

LOKOJA

Lokoja. In See also:

JANUARY

January x900 they attacked a See also:

TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph construction party in the Munshi country on the See also:

banks of the Benue. The result was the occupation of Keffi by British troops and the See also:

GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

gradual subjugation of the province. In 1902 the first British See also:

RESIDENT

resident, See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Moloney, was murdered at Keffi by an See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official of the emir's See also:

court. The emir repudiated all responsibility for the See also:

CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime, and the murderer fled to See also:

KANO

Kano, where his reception on friendly terms was among the incidents which determined the See also:

SOKOTO

Sokoto-Kano See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1903. The British were now recognized as the rulers of Nigeria, and the emir of Nassarawa threw in his See also:

lot with the British See also:

government. Slave raiding was abolished and the slave See also:

trade made illegal.

A British court of See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice was established at the provincial See also:

head-quarters and native courts in every district. Roads have been opened and trade is steadily increasing. In 1905 an expedition was required against the Kagoro people, who occupy a vast openshort road to the Bauchi See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin mines passes from the Benue. These people had been raiding the Fula for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and murdering traders upon the road. A splendid grazing country, healthy and also See also:

rich in rubber, was opened. The road to the tin mines was rendered safe and is now the Bauchi See also:

MAIL

mail route. There is a See also:

CART (A.S. crcet, Gaelic cairt; connected with " car ")

cart road from Loko on the Benue to Keffi. (F. L.

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