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
_Hadje Hajeel_, (village), notice of, 203, 204.
_Hamera_, (village), notice of, 210.
_Hand_, cutting off, a punishment for theft, 17.
_Haousa_, country, boundaries of, 149. Vocabulary of its language,
149—151.
_Hatia_, a species of desert, notice of, 345.
_Hegira_, festival of the commencement of, 185.
_Hoon_, (a town of Fezzan), notice of, 75. The author attends public
worship at the Mosque there, 77, 78.
_Hormut Emhalla_, pass of, 68.
——— _t’Mohalla_, pass of, 326.
——— _Taad atar_, pass of, 69.
——— _t’Uziz_, pass of, 325.
_Hornemann_, the traveller, notice of, 133.
_Horses_, Arabian, account of, 46, 47. How shod, 48. Singular mode
of swimming them over the river Tsad, 124, 125.
_Horticulture_, state of, in Fezzan, 277.
_Houses_ at Morzouk, described, 96. At Sockna, structure of, 320.
_Ibrahim Zubbo_, an Arab tribe, notice of, 142.
_Inscription_, ancient, at Tripoli, 18. At Bonjem, 66.
_Itinerary_, from Kashna to Sakkatoo, 140. Into Bornou, 141, 142.
From Morzouk to Tuat, 144. And to Kashna, 131. From Fuggha to
Benghāzi, 243. From Benghāzi to Derna, ibid, 244. From Yent Werda,
265. From Tegerry to Bilma, ibid.
_Jerba_, an article of Tripoline dress, described, 6.
_Jibn_, or Arabian cheese, notice of, 45.
_Jufara_, wells of, 223.
_Kabra_, the port of Tembuctoo, notice of, 145.
_Kadi_, jurisdiction of, in Fezzan, 279, 280.
_Kaffir_, or unbeliever, who are so called, 160.
_Kanem_, barbarous irruption into, by the Sultan of Fezzan, 129.
_Kasarawa_, (well of), 236.
_Kashna_, Itinerary from Morzouk to, 131. Account of the road from
Kashna to Soudan, 132. Rivers of this district, 133. Cowries
current there for coin, 138. Manufactures, 139. Itinerary from
Kashna to various places in Soudan, 140—142.
_Kattagum_ river, course of, 133, 134.
_Kenaire_, pass of, 306.
_Khod el Khadem_, mountain of, 69.
_Klia_, (desert), painful journey across, 68, 69.
_Kohol_, mountain of, 308.
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