The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Furs (negroes)

FURS, fọrs, FORS, or FURANI, Moslem negroes, whose habitat is in Darfur in eastern Sudan. They are very black, tall and have wooly hair. They have been classed with the Nigritians, the race which once covered the Egyptian Sudan. Their modern history is a continuous record of wars and insurrections.