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of its vegetable ftores, is a tree which is called Kedeynah, that 
in form and height refembles the olive, is like the lemon in its 
leaf, and bears a nut, of v/hich the kernel and the fiiell are both 
in great eftimation, the firfl as a faiit, the lall on account of 
the oil which it furnilhcs when bruifed, and which fupplies the 
lam^ps of the people of Bornou with a fubftitute for the oil of 
olives.. 
To this competent proviiion of fuch vegetables as are requi- 
iite to the fupport, or grateful to the appetite of man, mud: be 
added a much more ample and more varied fupply, of Animal 
Food. Innumerable flocks of flieep, and herds of goats and 
cows, (for there are no oxen) together with multitudes of 
horfes, buffaloes, and camels, (the flefli of which is in high ef- 
timation) cover the vales or pafture on the mountains of Bor- 
nou. * 
The common, though not the Guinea fowl is alfo reared by 
the inhabitants ; and their hives of bees are fo extremely nume- 
T rous 
* Horfes and horned cattle, goats and Iheep, and camels, are the common ani- 
^nals of the country,. 
Ben Alli, 
