CONCLUSIONS SUGGESTED BY 
his Narrative warrants the belief of whatever elfe is equally 
defcribed on the authority of his perfonal knowledge, then they 
will feel that conclufions of an important and interefting nature 
refult from the various, though imperfeO: intelligence which he 
has furniflied. 
The prefent flate of tlie Empire of Bornou, compared with 
its condition v/hen Leo Africanus, who wrote his account in the 
year 1526, was its vifitor, exhibits an interefting proof of the 
advancement of the Mahometan Faith, and of the progrefs of 
imperfe£l civilization, * A favage nakednefs, or the rude cover- 
ing 
® Leo's Hiflory of Africa, book 7th, pages 293 and 294. Englifh edition. 
Of the Kingdom of Borno." 
" The inhabitants in Summer go all naked, except at their waifts, which they 
" cover with a piece of leather : but all Winter they are clad in Ikins, and have 
" beds of Ikins alfo. They embrace no religion at all, being neither Chriftians, 
" Mahometans, nor Jews, nor of any other profefiion, but living after a brutilh 
" manner, and having wives and children in common : and (as I underftood of a 
certain Merchant that abode a long time among them) they have no proper 
" names at all, but every one is nick-named according to his length, his fatnefs, 
or fome other qualitie. They have a moft puilTant Prince, being lineally de- 
fcended from the Lybian people called Eardoa: horfemen he hath in a continual 
readinefs, to the number of 3000, and an huge number of footmen, for all his 
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