COMMUNICATIONS, 
ftreets might, with the utmoft eafe, have been given to their 
towns. In Bornou, however, a different fyftem has prevailed ; 
for even in the capital, the houfes, flraggling wide of each 
other, are placed without method or rule ; and the obvious pro- 
priety of giving to the principal mofque, a central htuation, ex- 
hibits the only proof of attention to general convenience.* 
The King's palace, furrounded by high walls, and forming a 
kind of citadel, is built, perhaps with a view to fecurity, in a 
corner of the town.f 
Markets for the fale of provifions are opened within the city ; 
but for other articles, a weekly market, as in Barbary, is held 
without the walls. 
The 
* Bornoo, though a town of greater extent than Tripoli, confifts of a multitude 
of houfes, fo irregularly placed that the fpaces between them cannot be called ftreets. 
it is furniftied with mofques, which are conftruded of brick and of earth; and with 
fchools, in which the Koran is taught, as in the principal towns of Barbary. 
Ben Alli. 
In time of peace the Sultan always refides in the capital. 
Ben Alli. 
