CHAP. III. 
NOTICES 
OF THE INTERIOR. 
123 
Blood 
Boo 
Good 
Unglla 
Day 
Koo 
Fire 
Kanno 
Night 
Boone 
Water 
Ankee 
Sleep 
Koonem 
Earth 
Shiddi 
Dead 
Nowy 
Bird 
Ongoodo 
White 
Bull 
Egg 
Engoobble 
Black 
Tsellm 
Fish 
Boney 
Sun 
Koo 
Camel 
Kalgamoo 
Moon 
Kengal 
Cow 
Fai' 
Stars 
Shilluga 
God 
Allah ^1 
Stone 
Kow 
Bornou is a large tract of country, 40 days' journey, or about 
700 miles, south of Fezzan. It is bounded on the east by Baghermi, 
on the west by Kano ^I^, and to the northward by Kanem. Few 
traders ever go due south of Bornou, and are therefore unable to 
speak of the countries in that direction. There are many contra- 
dictions respecting the principal town, called Birnie or more 
properly, Birnie Jedeed or new Birnie, to distinguish it from another 
town, called Gedeem or old. 
These towns are five days east and west of each other, and the 
Eiver Tsad runs near them both. The old town is the most to 
the westward, and is now nearly forsaken. In consequence of its 
vicinity to the Fellata, who were masters of Soudan, it was con- 
stantly exposed to Ghrazzies, or incursions for the purpose of carry- 
ing off the natives ; and even single inhabitants were often seized 
and dragged from their labour by small marauding parties, who lay 
in ambush for them. It was therefore determined about eight 
years since, to build a new town more in the centre of their country, 
and to forsake what had been their capital from the earliest times 
in which they were known. 
Thus it is that the accounts received are often materially dif- 
ferent : those who have visited the old town, giving their distances 
from it, whilst more recent traders speak only of the new one. 
AU the distances I have laid down are from the last. 
