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extremely fliort. Among the lower claffes of the inhabitants it 
confifts of the mats covered with a (lieep-ildn, upon which they 
fleep ; of an earthen pot ; of a pan of the fame materials ; of two 
or three wooden diflies, a couple of wooden bowls, an old carpet, 
a lamp for oil, and perhaps a copper kettle. 
' Perfons of a fuperior rank are alfo poffefTed of leathern cu- 
Hiions, that are iluffed with wool ; of feveral brafs and copper 
utenfils, of a handfome carpet, and of a fort of candlefticks ; 
for inftead of the vegetable oil which is ufed by the common 
people, they employ the light of candles manufa<Slured from 
their bees wax and the tallow of their fheep. 
Bornou is fituated at the diftance of a day's journey from a 
river which is called Wed-el-Gazel, from the multitude of an- 
telopes that feed upon its banks, and which is loft in the deep 
and fandy waftes of the vaft Defart of Bilma/^ 
From the fymmetry of the houfes, and the general refem- 
blance which they bear to each other, a regular arrangement of 
ftreets 
* Borneo is fituated in a flat country, on the banks of a fmall river. 
Ben Alli. 
