Religious Persecution Is Not
Known Among Them, Nor Is It Necessary; For The System Of Mohammed Is
Made To Extend Itself By Means Abundantly More Efficacious.
By
establishing small schools in the different towns, where many of the
pagan as well as Mohammedan children are
Taught to read the Koran,
and instructed in the tenets of the Prophet, the Mohammedan priests
fix a bias on the minds, and form the character, of their young
disciples, which no accidents of life can ever afterwards remove or
alter. Many of these little schools I visited in my progress
through the country, and I observed with pleasure the great docility
and submissive deportment of the children, and heartily wished they
had had better instructors and a purer religion.
With the Mohammedan faith is also introduced the Arabic language,
with which most of the Foulahs have a slight acquaintance. Their
native tongue abounds very much in liquids, but there is something
unpleasant in the manner of pronouncing it. A stranger, on hearing
the common conversation of two Foulahs, would imagine that they were
scolding each other. Their numerals are these:-
The industry of the Foulahs, in the occupations of pasturage and
agriculture, is everywhere remarkable. Even on the banks of the
Gambia, the greater part of the corn is raised by them, and their
herds and flocks are more numerous and in better condition than
those of the Mandingoes; but in Bondou they are opulent in a high
degree, and enjoy all the necessaries of life in the greatest
profusion.
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