Word: hausa
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Flood. Two days later the flood broke. First came word that the remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents...
...LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth and fingernails for the observance." LoBagola's people speak "a dialect of Arabic, mixed a great deal with Hausa, Yoruba, and Benga vernacu-lars." They wear no clothes. Most of them have never seen a white...