Heard a great deal about the Foullans, Foulahs, and Fellatahs, the predominant race in Soudan. _Foullan_ (‮فلّان فلّانين فلّاني‬) is the Soudanic term, _Fellatah_ the Bornouese, and _Foulah_ what is used to denominate them among the Mandingoes. According to information here, they were once the most miserable race of _Arab_ wanderers in The Desert. But at last they settled down as neighbours to the Negroes, some 700 years since. They continued to increase in numbers and importance, abandoning tents and building villages and towns, and intermixing with the Negroes, till about forty-five (and others thirty-five) years ago, when they expanded their ideas to conquest and renown. About this time they made the conquest of Kanou, Succatou, and the other large cities of Housa. Never a people rose to greater fame and power. They were assisted, like the Saracens before them, by religious fanaticism, and so far corresponded with them, in extending the boundaries of Islamism. They went on conquering and to conquer till within the present year, when their power received some check by the daring exploits of the Tibboo prince of Zinder, a vassal of Bornou. This prince has taken from them a few towns. The complexion of the ordinary Fullanee is a deep olive, with pleasing features, not much Negro, and long hair. [Illustration] Negroes in Nigritia are known by the _Shoushoua_ (‮شوشوا‬), or scarifying. Generally in Negro countries, which profess the Mohammedan religion, the _Shoushoua_ is abandoned as _haram_ or prohibited. It is mostly the sign of paganism. The operation is performed by a sharp cutting instrument, and is never _effaced_ from the face during life. The annexed drawing presents the _Shoushoua_ of the Negroes of Tombo, near Jinnee, who are pagans. Whenever the slaves see these marks they know the country of the other slaves who bear them. Formerly it could be ascertained whether a slave was born on the coast, or brought from the interior, by the presence or absence of the _Shoushoua_. Now it cannot, because the practice is discontinued in countries subject to Moslem rule, whence slaves are sometimes brought. In Ghadames a freed slave is called _mâtouk_ (‮معتوق‬) or _horr_ (‮حرّ‬). The terms _waseef_ (‮وسيف‬) and sometimes _mamlouk_ (‮مملوك‬) are employed for a single slave, and _âbeed_ (‮عبيد‬) for many. The Arabic terms ‮قايد الوصفان‬ "the chief of slaves," are used to denote the person who is responsible for the conduct of slaves, or the "Sheikh of the slaves." The word RAZZIA, which the French are said to have invented, and which has acquired such a _triste_ celebrity by their butcheries of the Arabs in Algeria, is derived from the same word as designates a Slave-hunt (_ghazah_)[53] amongst our Saharan people. The verb is ‮غَزَا‬ _ghaza_, "petivit," which in the second conjugation means, "expeditione bellica petivit hostem," and the noun in use is ‮غَزَاة‬ _ghazah_, "expeditione bellica." The