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TRAVELS IN NORTHERN AFRICA. chap. ill. 
with the one they have just finished, under a burning sun, with 
new companions, but with the same miseries. 
The females are always considered as bearing fatigue much better 
than the males ; perhaps because their small allowance of food and 
water more easily suffices them. I have always observed that the 
men were more miserable in their appearance, and walked with 
more difficulty than the women. 
Having been enabled to collect a great deal of information 
from Bornou traders, respecting that country, I shall here detail it ; 
but I have to request my readers to bear in mind, that I only report 
what I have heard, and refrain from giving any opinion as to the 
Course of the Niger, having so often found how Uttle the accounts 
concerning it are to be credited. I certainly have formed my own 
conjectures ; but may be mistaken, as better theorists than myself 
have been, on that most interesting subject. 
COUNTRY OF EOENOU, 
AS COLLECTED FROM TRADERS. 
Bornou Language. 
One 
Two 
Three 
Four 
Five 
Six 
Seven 
Teelo 
Andee 
Yaskoo 
Daigoo 
Oogoo 
Araskoo 
Tuller 
Oskoo 
Lekar 
Maigoo 
Woman 
Father 
Mother 
Head 
Man 
Kooa 
Mata 
Abbah 
Yany 
Eyes 
Nose 
Hair 
Teeth 
Belly 
Hand 
Foot 
Kek 
Shim 
Nine 
Ten 
Twenty 
Hundred 
Eight 
Maigoo lata Maigoo 
Jarroo 
Kensha 
Kondoly 
Timmi 
Soro 
Moskoo 
Shie 
