COM M UNICA TIONS. 
Bornou, like other countries th:it approach the Equinoftial, is 
much infefted with different kinds of dangerous or difgufting 
reptiles, efpecialiy fnakes and fcorpions, centipedes and toads. 
Of its l^eq/ls of burthen the variety is as ample as the num- 
bers are abundant ; for the camel, the horfe, the afs, and the 
mule, are common in the empire. 
The dog, with which the inhabitants purfue their game, ap- 
pears to be their only domejlic animal. 
In the mountains of Tibefti, and perhaps in other parts of the 
empire, the herdfmen, probably for the fake of a more eafy 
change of pafture, prefer a refidence in tents to flationary dwel- 
lings ; and thofe, it feems, are not manufa(5lured, like the tents 
4of the Zahara, from the camel's hair ; but are compofed of the 
hides of cows, a more durable and impervious covering 
Through all the empire of Bornou the fame mode of hull clings 
and with the difference of a greater or a fmaller fcale, the fame 
form in the plan of the houfes univerfally prevails.— Four walls, 
hicloling a fquare, are ereded ; within thofe walls, and parallel 
to them^ four other walls are alfo built : the ground between 
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