or YALOFFS, are a warlike people, inhabiting most of that part of Africa, lying between Senegal and the Mandingo states on the Gambia. Their lips, according to Mr Park, are not so protuberant as those of the generality of Africans; and though their skin is of the deepest black, they are esteemed by the white traders as the most frightly of the negroes in that part of the continent. They are divided into several independent states, and more resemble the Mandingoes than any other nation in their manners and government, but much exceed them in the manufacture of cotton cloth, spinning the wool to a finer thread, weaving it in a broader loom, and dyeing it of a better colour. They make excellent soap, by boiling ground nuts in water, and then adding a ley of wood ashes. They likewise manufacture very good iron, which they carry to Bandore to exchange for salt. Their language, it is said, is copious and significant, and is frequently heard by Europeans trading to Senegal.

A generous disposition, according to the testimony of Mr Park, is said to distinguish them above the generality of savages; they know how to return an act of kindness shewn them by others in distress, and their conduct towards their enemies, in many instances, is said to be worthy of imitation.