ETHNOLOGY. Within this broadest belt of Africa lying south of the Sahara, the following races and peoples are to be discriminated: (1) Semitcs, consisting of Arabs, who under many names live in Kanem and Bornu about Lake Chad and eastward to Khartum and Kordofan.
(2) lignites, whose main divisions are the Tilms, in many subdivisions, about Lake Chad; the Tuaregs, within the Niger bend and on the left bank of the Senegal; and the Fulah, Futa-Toro, and Futa-Jallon, scattered from Sene gambia to Darfur and south to Adamawa.
(3) Negroes, who are divided into several groups. The west coast Negroes, ineluding the Wolof, Serer, Sarakole, Toucouleur, Man dingo, Felup, and innumerable other tribes from the Senegal River to Sierra Leone; the Sierra Leone Negroes, comprising the Tenure family and a multitude of pagan tribes: the Liberian Negroes, or Colonials, Kru, and many pagan tribes; the Ivory Coast Negroes. from Cape Palmas eastward, akin to the Kru; the Gold Coast Negroes, composed of the Tshi group, including the Fanti, Ashanti, and others, and the Ga groups, all pagans; the Slave Coast Negroes, making up the Ewe group, including the Dahomans (see D.knomEv), and the Yoruba group; Niger Basin
Negroes, including the Bambarra, Sonrhay, and Hausa (see HAUSA STATES) ; the Benue Negroes, composed of Moslem and pagan tribes in the region of the Benue River; the Lower Niger Negroes, or the lbos (Niger delta), the Igbara (above the Benue confluence), and a multitude of pagan and Moslem tribes; the Chad Basin Negroes, comprising the Kanuris, the Baghirmi, the Mosgu, and many thou sands of others chiefly pagan and mixed with Semites and Hamites; the \Vadai Negroes, including the Maba and many other tribes all of more or less mixed blood, with a large percentage of Moslems; the Darfur and Kordofan Negroes. or Furs (Moslems), and Nuba (pagans) ; the Upper Nile Negroes, extending from Lake Victoria northward, and including the Madi, the Mittu, and a host of others, nearly all the kVelle Negroes, comprising the Mombottu, the Momfu, the Niam Niam, the Akka, and a number of other tribes.