All the traders speak of slaves as farmers do of cattle. Those recently brought from the interior were fattening, in order that they might be able to go on to Tripoli, Benghazi, or Egypt: thus a distance of 1600 or 1800 miles is to be traversed, from the time these poor creatures are taken from their homes, before they can be settled; whilst in the Interior they may, perhaps, be doomed to pass through the hands of eight or ten masters, who treat them well or ill, according to their pleasure. These devoted victims fondly hoping that each new purchaser may be the last, find perhaps that they have again to commence a journey equally long and dreary 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 little 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 BORNOU, AS COLLECTED FROM TRADERS. _Bornou Language._ One Teelo Two Andee Three Yaskoo Four Daigoo Five Oogoo Six Araskoo Seven Tuller Eight Oskoo Nine Lekār Ten Maigoo Twenty Maigoo lata Maigoo Hundred Jarroo Man Kooa Woman Mata Father Abbah Mother Yany Head Kela Eyes Shim Nose Kensha Hair Kondoly Teeth Timmi Belly Soro Hand Moskoo Foot Shie Blood Boo Day Koo Night Booné Sleep Koonem Dead Nowy White Bull Black Tsellm Sun Koo Moon Kengāl Stars Shilluga Stone Kow Good Unglla Fire Kanno Water Ankee Earth Shiddi Bird Ongoodo Egg Engoôbble Fish Boney Camel Kalgāmoo Cow Faï God Allah الله