See also:

• TUKULOR (TUCULERS)

TUKULOR (TUCULERS)  , the name, by some said to be the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French tout-couleur, for the See also:

• NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

negro See also:

• HALF

half-castes of See also:

• SENEGAL

Senegal, who are principally of See also:

• FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS)

Fula-See also:

• WOLOF (WoLOFF, JOLOF)

Wolof descent . By others the word is identified with Tacurol, an old name of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, which took the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of Tacurores in the Portuguese writers of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The See also:

• TUKULOR (TUCULERS)

Tukulor are settled chiefly in the Damga, Futa, See also:

• TORO

Toro and Dimar districts of Senegal, and are remarkable for their fanaticism as Mahommedans . An intelligent, energetic and fierce See also:

• PEOPLE

people, they offered strenuous opposition to the See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of their country by the French in the latter half of the 19th century .