MR' LUCAS'S 
is the executioner of thofe crimimals on whom his own voice 
has pronounced the fentence of death ; but the Sultan of Bor- 
nou, too poHflied, or too humane, to pollute his hands with the 
blood of his fubjefts, commits the care of the execution to the 
Cadi, who direQis his fiaves to flrike off the head of the pri- 
foner. 
The Military Force of the Sultan of Bornou confilts in the 
multitude of his horfemen ; for his foot foldiers are few in num- 
ber, and are fcarcely confidered as contributing to the ftrength 
of the battle.* The fabre, the lance, the pike, and the bow, 
coniUtute their weapons of offence ; and a fhield of hides com- 
pofes their defenfiye armour. Fire-arms, though not entirely 
unknown to them, for thofe with which the Merchants of Fez- 
zan cccafionally travel, are fufficient to give them an idea of 
their importance and decifive effe£t, are neither ufed nor pop 
felled by the people of Bornou, 
When the Sovereign prepares for war, and levies an armiy for 
* The Sultan of Boraoo commands a vaft.army of horfenii^nj, and Is a mvvch 
more powerful Monarch than the Emperor of Morrocco. 
Ben Alli. 
