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that appears upon the tall, is then fcraped off, is prefer\^ed in a 
bladder, and conftitutes the much valued perfume. After a 
fbort interval the operation is renewed, and is repeated, from 
time to time, till at the end of tv/elve or fourteen days the ani- 
mal dies of the fatigue and continual torment. The quantity 
obtained from one cat is generally about half an ounce. 
Of ManufaBures^ none for exportation are furnifhed by the 
people of Bornou ; but the Shereef remarks that, for their own 
confumption, they fabricate from the iron ore of their country^, 
though with little IkilL, fuch flight tools as their hufbandry re^- 
quires.'"' 
* From the hemp of the country, a coarfe linen is manufadured by the people 
of Bornoo. Their cotton, which is alfo a native produce, is fpun to a thread of 
remarkable finenefs, and is tjien converted to callicoes and muflins of about nine 
inches in breadth, and of a length which varies from fifteen to twenty yards. Such 
of thefe cotton manufailures as are enriched with the blue dye of the country, 
which, from the fuperiority of the indigo, is preferable to that of the Eaft Indies, 
are valued more highly than fdk ; yet their only fupply of the latter is that which 
the Merchants of Barbary convey. 
They alfo fabricate a fpecies of carpet, as a covering for their horfes. Tents, 
from wool and the hair of goats and of camels, are made for the ufe of the army. 
The little filver they hav£ is converted by their own artifts into rings. 
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