ABSTRACT

THE principal habitat of the Hausawa-or, as we call them, the Hausas-comprises the Hausa States, forming the greater part of what is now Northern Nigeria, which is British territory, a good deal of the French Possessions to the west, and also the hinterland of the Gold Coast. But the people, being great travellers and traders, are met with all over the Sudan, and many colonies have been established between Tripoli and Tunis in the north and the Bight of Benin in the south.