A narrative of travels in northern Africa in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan and of the course of the NigerLyon, G. F. (George Francis)
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A narrative of travels in northern Africa in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan and of the course of the Niger
Lyon, G. F. (George Francis)
Fezzan (Libya) -- Description and travel; Tripolitania -- Description and travel
Exports to, from Fezzan,
152—154. Imports thence, 154—157. Articles of commerce between
Bornou and the Tibboo, 159. Description of the women of
Bornou, 161.
_Bornouse_, or African and Arab cloak, described, 6.
_Bouzafer_, a kind of footing analogous to that of crossing the
line, notice of, 81.
_Bread_, Arab mode of baking, 51.
_Buckland_, (Professor), observations of, on the rocks and minerals
of Tripoli and Fezzan, 361. Basaltic rocks, ibid, 362. Tertiary
formations, 361, 363. New red sandstone, 361, 364—366. Magnesian
limestone, 366—369.
_Buffaloes_ of North Africa, notice of, 76.
_Bugs_ of Fezzan, 186.
_Burials_, African mode of, 19, 20. Account of the burial-places at
Morzouk, 99.
_Camels_, extraordinary mode of travelling on, 114, 115. Arab mode
of firing, when lame, 301. Water, how obtained from the stomach of,
to satisfy the thirst of almost perishing travellers, 305.
_Cannibalism_ practised at Yemyem, 142, 143.
_Castle_ of Morzouk, description of, 98, 99.
_Cattle_ of the Arabs, accustomed to subsist without water, 44. High
prices of, at Morzouk, 177.
_Charms_, prevalence of, among the Arabs, 31, 52.
_Coffee_, a preventive of thirst in hot climates, 93.
_Commerce_, articles of, between Fezzan, Soudan, Bornou, and Waday,
152—157. Between Fezzan and Egypt, 157—159. Between Bornou and the
Tibboo, ibid. Between Tuat and the Tuarick, ibid, 160.
_Corn_, African mode of grinding and preparing, 178.
_Corna_, a species of fruit, notice of, 274.
_Cookery_ of the Arabs, described, 49—51.
_Costume_ of the Tripoline men, described, 6, 7. Of the women, 17,
18. Of the Arabs, 39, 40. Of the people of Sockna, 73. Of the
Tuarick, an African tribe, 109, 110. Of Bornou, 130. Of the women
of Bornou and Soudan, 161. Of the inhabitants of Morzouk, 168—172.
Particularly of the children and court of the Sultan, 176, 177. Of
the Tibboo women, 225, 226. And of the Tibboo men, 228.
_Courtsey_, forms of, among the Arabs, 53. And among the Tibboos,
232.
_Cuscussou_, an Arabian dish, how prepared, 48, 49.
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