Note 64 — SUPPLEMENTAL CHAPTER ON BORNOU.

The articles most in request amongst the Negro nations are:—

Writing paper, on which the profit is enormous.

Coral barrelled, and imitation coral.

Printed cottons of all kinds, with a great deal of red and yellow in the pattern.

Coloured silks, in pieces for large shirts and shifts, of the most gaudy patterns.

Imitations of damask, worked with gold thread, and flowers.

Common red cloth.

Green do.

White barracans, purchased in Tripoli.

Small looking-glasses.

White bornouses, purchased in Tripoli.

Small carpets, five or six feet long, purchased in Tripoli.

English carpets of the same size would sell better, and might be bought at one-third of the price of Turkish ones.

Ornamented cheap pistols, with long barrels.

Common razors.

Red caps, purchased in Tripoli.

Turbans of all descriptions, large amber, for the Kanemboo women, and the Shouaas.

Common China basins, much esteemed.

Coffee cups.

Brass basins, tinned in the inside.

Red breeches, made up.

Cotton caftans, striped, made up.

Pieces of striped cotton.

Handkerchiefs, and coarse white muslin.

Large shirts or tobes, ready made, of striped cottons, and white calico.

Coarse white calico. ⎱ ⎰ much esteemed.

Fine do. do.

Frankincense, ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ purchased of the Jews in Tripoli, or Leghorn.

Ottaria,

Spices,

The beads most in demand, indeed the only ones that they will purchase, are:—

H’raz-el mekka, white glass beads, with a flower.

Merjan tiddoo, mock coral.

Quamur, white sand beads.

Quamar m’zein, small black beads, with yellow stripes.

H’raz-el pimmel, ant’s head bead, with black stripes.

Contembali, red and white.

Hazam el bashaw, the bashaw’s sash.

Sbgha m’kerbub, red pebble, from Trieste.

Sbgha toweel, long bead.

H’shem battura, Arab’s nose, a large red bead.

Arms of all descriptions, of an inferior quality, will always meet with a ready sale, as well as balls of lead, and what we call swan-shot.