CHAPTER Vir. 
Rout from Mourzouk to CaJJona — Boundaries of the Empire — ■ 
Its Language^ Currency, and Tirade. 
'J7QUALLY connefted by their commeixe with Caflina and 
Bornou, the Fezzanners difpatch to the former as well as to the 
latter, and always at the fame feafon, an annual cara^"an, From 
Mourzouk, their capital, which they leave at tlie clofe of Oc- 
tober, they take their courfe to the South South Weft, and pro- 
ceed to the Province of Hiatts, the mofi barren, and the word 
inhabited diftricl of tlieir countrv.. 
Five of the fourteen days wliich are requilite for this part of 
their rout, are confumed in the paffage of a fandy defart, in 
which their ufual expedient of covering their goat Ikins, both 
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