with the one they have just finished, under a burning sun, with new companions, but with the same miseries. The females are always considered as bearing fatigue much better than the males; perhaps because their small allowance of food and water more easily suffices them. I have always observed that the men were more miserable in their appearance, and walked with more difficulty than the women. Having been enabled to collect a great deal of information from Bornou traders, respecting that country, I shall here detail i t ; but I have to request my readers to bear in mind, that I only report what I have heard, and refrain from giving any opinion as to the Course of the Niger, having so often found how little the accounts concerning it are to be credited. I certainly have formed my own conjectures; but may be mistaken, as better theorists than myself have been, on that most interesting subject. COUNTEY OF BOKNOU, AS CO LLEC TED FROM TRADERS. Bornou Language. One Teelo Man Kooa Two Andee Woman Mata Three Yaskoo Father Abbah Four Daigoo Mother Yany Five Oogoo Head Kela Six Araskoo Eyes . Shim Seven Tuller Nose Kensha Eight Oskoo Hair Kondoly Nine Lekâr Teeth Timmi Ten Maigoo Belly Soro Twenty Maigoo lata Maigoo Hand Moskoo Hundred Jarroo Foot Shie CH A P . I I I . NOTICES OF T H E IN T ER IO R . 1 2 3 Blood Boo Good Ungila Hay Koo Fire Kanno Night Booné Water Ankee Sleep Koonem Earth Shiddi Dead Nowy Bird Ongoodo White Bull E gg Engoôbble Black Tsellm ■ Fish Boney Sun Koo Camel Kalgâmoo Moon Kengâl Cow Fai Stars Shilluga God Allah ¿1)1 Stone Kow Bornou is a large tract of country, 40 days’ journey, or about 700 miles, south of Fezzan. It is bounded on the east by Baghermi, on the west by Kano ¿i, and to the northward by Kanem. Few traders ever go due south of Bornou, and are therefore unable to speak of the countries in that direction. There are many contradictions respecting the principal town, called Birnie ; or more properly, Birnie Jedeed or new Birnie, to distinguish it from another town, called Gedeem or old. These towns are five days east and west of each other, and the Eiver Tsad runs near them both. The old town is the most to the westward, and is now nearly forsaken. In consequence of its vicinity to the Fellata, who were masters of Soudan, it was constantly exposed to Ghrazzies, or incursions for the purpose of carrying off the natives ; and even single inhabitants were often seized and dragged from their labour by small marauding parties, who lay in ambush for them. It was therefore determined about eight years since, to build a new town more in the centre of their country, and to forsake what had been their capital from thè earliest times in which they were known. Thus it is that the accounts received are often materially different : those who have visited the old town, giving their distances from it, whilst more recent traders speak only o f the new one. All the distances I have laid down are from the last. b 2
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