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                  CHAP. XXXIV.



  A'DAMlwA.  MOHAMMEDAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE HEART OF

                   CENTRAL-AFRICA.



 We had now reached the border of A'damawa, the

 country after which I had been panting so long, and

 of which I had heard so many interesting accounts, a

 Mohammedan kingdom engrafted upon a mixed stock

 of pagan  tribes, — the conquest of the valorous and

 fanatic Piillo chieftain, A'dama, over the great pagan

 kingdom of Fiimbina.

  I was musing over the fate of the native races of

 this  country, when the governor,  with a numerous

 suite, came to pay me a visit.  Neither he nor any of

 his companions were dressed with any degree of ele¬

 gance, or even cleanliness.  I had endeavoured in vain

 to obtain information from my companions as  to the

 period when the Fiilbe had begun to emigrate into this

 country; but they were unable to  give me any other

answer, than that they had been settled in the country

from very ancient times, and that not only the fathers

but even the grandfathers  of the present generation

had  inhabited  the same  region  as cattle-breeders,

 " berroroji."   Neither  the governor nor any of his

people were able  to give  me more precise informa-