Physical conformation.—Tall, well-made Negroes, with the nasal profile less depressed, and the lips less prominent than is the case with the more typical tribes.
THE SERERES.
Locality.—Cape Verde, conterminous with and surrounded by the Woloffs.
The Sereres are considered (and that upon fair grounds) to have been the original inhabitants of a great part of the Woloff country. Consequently, they are tribes of a receding area.
The affinities of the language are problematical; being with the Woloff and the Fulah almost equally. It has also many words common to it and—
THE SERAWOLLI (SERACOLET).
Locality.—Senegambia in the kingdoms of Galam, Kaarta, in parts of the Bambarra country, and in parts of Ludamar, north of the Senegal.
The affinities of the Serawolli language are, perhaps, most with the Sereres, and, after that, with the Mandingo.
THE MANDINGO.
Area.—North and south (south-east).—From the parts about Cape Verde to Liberia; with an extension, inland, beyond Sego and the Kong Mountains.