COMMUNICATIONS. 
or fat ; a procefs which gives it^ even in tliat climate, a lafting 
prefervation. , 
■ In all the principal towns to whicli tliej trade, the Merchants 
of Fezzan have Fa6lors, or confidential Friends, to whofe care, 
till their return, or till their inilru<Slions as to the market fliall 
arrive, they confign fuch Negros as they purchafe, perfe£lly af- 
fured that the flaves will be forwarded by the Agents according 
to the orders they receive ; but their gold duft, as being more 
€afily conveyed, and lefs dependent for its value on the choice 
of the market, is feldom entrulled to the Fador, 
The caravans which proceed to Tripoli are freighted partly 
with trona, the produce of their native land, and partly with 
fenna and gold duft and flaves, the produce of the fouthern 
countries with which they trade ; and in return they bring back 
the cutlery and woollens (particularly red woollen caps) and 
filks, wrought and unwrought, together with the Imperial dol- 
lars, the copper and the brafs, which are requifite for the con- 
fumption of thofe countries or for their own. 
The caravans which travel to Bornou are loaded with the fol- 
lowing goods: 
Brafs 
