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The Sultanate of Bornu

Note 371 — VII

Philip Askell Benton translation

[There are a few suits of chain-mail in the country, said to date from Crusader times, and to have drifted across the desert. For illustrations of four different patterns of ‘ngalio’ or throwing-iron vid. Mecklenburg, i. 24, and for coloured illustration of ‘liffedi’ or quilted armour vid. idem, i. 53.]

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