CHAP. III. 
NOTICES OF THE INTERIOR. 
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Birnie Jedeed to 
Ongornoo, fourteen days, east by south. 
Zegzeg, fifteen days, south-west. 
Zakari, eight days, westerly. 
Waday, sixteen days, easterly. 
Bahr el Ghazal (south part), ten days, east-north-east. 
Kashna, sixteen days, west. 
Morzouk, forty days, north. 
At Kattagum, a river called Nil by the natives flows across 
the road from Bornou to Kashna to the north-east. It is of great 
magnitude, and is passed on rafts ; the water is sweet, and full of fish. 
It rises periodically, and sometimes overflows the country. 
Ongornoo is situated within a day of Ivooka, and is much fre- 
quented by traders in the spring, when a large market is held 
there, principally for slaves, who are brought from all the sur- 
rounding countries in security ; a general armistice prevailing during 
the annual sale. It is subject to Bornou : the people are Moham- 
medans. A river flows past it to the eastward. 
Bahr el Ghazal, the south part of which is about ten days east- 
north-east of Birnie, runs nearly north-east and south-west for a 
great distance. It is inhabited by Negro tribes, of whom the greater 
part are Kaffirs, or, at all events, not Moslems. The nearest part 
of it to Bornou is about ten days east-north-east. It is an immense 
wadey, or valley full of trees, and having many inhabitants, who are 
wanderers. Elephants, rhinoceroses, lions, buffaloes, and the ca- 
melopard, or giraffe, called Jimel Allah <dlt J^, or God's camel, by 
the Arabs, are in great numbers. The natives generally use a kind 
of corrupt Arabic, though one or two languages peculiar to the 
country are also spoken. 
These people are a fine race, well made, and very active. They 
wear their hair, which is not woolly, long and plaited. The 
general dress is leather, but some go entirely naked. The cattle 
