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are alike in their Complexion, which is entirely black, but are 
not of the Negro caft.. 
' In a climate fo warm, the chief recommendations of Drefs are 
decency and ornament: among the pooreft, therefore, by whom 
the firfh only is regarded, a kind of girdle for the waift is fome- 
times the only covering ; but in general a turban, conhfting, as 
in Barbary, of a red woollen cap, furrounded by folds of cotton, 
together with a loofe robe of coloured cotton of a coarfer kind, 
are alfo worn.* 
The Grain that coniUtutes the principal obje^l of culture in 
Bornou is Indian corn, of two different kinds, which are diftin- 
guifhed in the country by the names of the gaffob, and the gam™ 
phuly. 
The 
* The drefs of the greateft part of the people is conipofed of fliirts of blue cot- 
ton, which is manufadliired in the country ; of a red cap, which is imported from 
Tripoli; and of a white muflin turban, which is brought from Cairo by the pilgrims 
who return through that City from Mecca. Nofe-rlngs of gold are worn by the 
principal people as a mark of diftinflion. 
Ben Alli. 
