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Bornouese make very good nets of a twine spun from a perennial plant called _kalimboa_: the implements for fishing are two large gourds nicely balanced, and fixed on a large stem of bamboo, at the extreme ends; the fisherman launches this on the river, and places himself astride between the two gourds, and thus he floats with the stream, and throws his net.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 Various
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Shortly after this a large body of them, five thousand strong, with two hundred chiefs were defeated by the Bornouese, when all the chiefs and a considerable number of the men were slain.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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One of the Bornouese had inflicted a dreadful cut under the left ear of the negro, and, notwithstanding his wound, they led the poor fellow by a rope fastened round his neck.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Clapperton could not refrain from beating the merciless Bornouese and at the same time threatening to lodge the contents of his gun in his head if he repeated his cruelties.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The people are in many respects similar to the Bornouese, with whom they are constantly at war.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Though a much handsomer race than the Bornouese, the Loggun people are thieves, and, judging from their chiefs, great rascals.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The town of Zinder is inhabited chiefly by the blacks of the Bornouese province of Damagram, who, though speaking the same language, are not considered Bornouese.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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Bornouese province, the capital of which is Tumbi: the Sultan's name is
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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Zinder is considered within the circle of Soudan, and not to be Bornou, but only a Bornouese province.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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Minyo, of which I am glad, because there we shall see the Bornouese population, in a purer state.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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