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included in her vail domains, Hie is now coniidered as much in- 
ferior to Bornou. 
RQUT FROM MOURZOUK TO BORNOU. 
" FPv.OM Mourzouk in Fezzan to Bornou, the capital of the 
empire from which it takes its name, the Fezzanners, whofe 
commercial fpirit no diftance can difcourage, are conduced by 
a rout of more than a thoufand miles. Temmiffa, the firft town 
at which they arrive, and the laft which they fee in Fezzan, they 
reach on the feventh day ; and in three days more they enter the 
territories of Bornou. Several villages, inhabited by Blacks, 
whofe perfons, their waifts excepted, are entirely naked, whofe 
meagre limbs and famifhed looks announce their extreme of 
mifery, and whofe idolatrous religion neither excites the refent- 
ment nor reftrains the charity of the benevolent Fezzanners, 
■mark the northern frontier of the empire. 
On the day following their departure from thefe melancholy 
hamlets, they begin the afcent of a hilly uninhabited defart of 
fand, where a few buflies of penurious vegetation point out the 
fucceflive 
