AN ARAB VILLAGE ON THE BORDERS OF EGYPT

LARGER IMAGE

Fans. A race of powerful and aggressive warriors, who intruded into Gaboon-Ogoway district about the middle of the nineteenth century; possibly related to [Azandeh] or [Fulahs] (q.v.). Cannibals, but otherwise of higher intellect and morality than the average Negro, from whom they differ in physical type.

Fantis. See [TSHI].

Fellahin. The labouring peasantry of modern Egypt, industrious but not warlike, descendants of ancient Egyptians, with a mixture of Syrian and Arab blood.

Felup. A group of Sudanese Negro tribes on Casamanza and Cacheo estuaries.

Fertits. See [NILITIC GROUP].

Fijians. Natives of Fiji, belonging to the Melanesian stock of the Oceanic Negro family. Formerly ferocious cannibals, they are now civilised.