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
_Spring_, return of, celebrated as a festival, 317. _Studies_,
course of, in Fezzan, 186, 187.
_Suarit_ (Mountain), 64.
_Subterraneous_ habitations, in the Gharian Mountains, described,
25, 29, 30.
_Sun_, extraordinary effect of, 209.
_Superstitions_ of the Tuarick, an African tribe, 111.
_Taleb_, village of, 209.
_Tar_, how made by the Tibboo tribe, 235, 236.
_Tarr_, Wadey of, 324.
_Tegerrina_, village of, 32.
_Tegerry_, the Southern limit of Fezzan, narrative of the Author’s
journey to, 202—237. Arrival there, 238. Description of its
castle, 239. Price of provisions there, 240. Its productions, 241.
Superstitions of its inhabitants, 242, 243. Itinerary thence to
Bilma, 244. The Author’s return there, 245. Itinerary thence to
Bilma, 265.
_Telemsen_, desert of, 148.
_Tembuctoo_, account of, 145. Its reputed immense population
accounted for, ibid. Notice of its port, Kabra, ibid. Manufactures
and dress of the people, 146. Government, 147.
_Temedd_, brackish well at, 324.
_Temenhiut_, or Temenhint (village), notice of, 85. Singular mode of
barter practised there, 302.
_Temesheen_, Wadey of, 308.
_Tents_, Arab, described, 41.
_Terboo_ (village), notice of, 220. Wretched condition of its
inhabitants, ibid.
_Terfaas_, a species of root, notice of, 37.
_Terhoona_, Arabs of, 37.
_Tessouwa_ (town), notice of, 189.
_Teweewa_, desert of, 211.
_Tghrasat_, Bazaar of, 32.
_Theft_, how punished at Tripoli, 17, 64.
_Tibboo_, or Slave Traders in the interior of Africa, account of,
120, 121. Articles of commerce between them and Bornou, 159. Dress
and character of the Tibboo women, 225—227, 232; and of the men,
227, 228. Notice of the animals produced in their country, 231.
Distance thence to Waday, 230, 231. Vocabulary of the Tibboo
language, 233. Tibboo forms of courtesy, 232. Music of this
people, 234. Their mode of preparing tar, 235, 236.
_Tibboos_ of Borgoo, account of, 251, 252, 254. Arab mode of making
them captives, 255. Anecdotes of a Tibboo boy, 308, 309.
_Tibesty_ (region), notice of, 230.
_Touela_ (village), notice of, 209.
_Trade_ of the Tuarick, 114. Of the Tibboo, 120—122. Between Fezzan,
Soudan, Bornou, and Waday, 152—157. Between Fezzan and Egypt,
157—159. Between Bornou and the Tibboo country, 159. Between Tuat
and the Tuarick, ibid. 160.
_Traghan_, date groves of, 205. Modesty of a Marāboot there, 206.
Account of the castle and town, 207, 208.
_Travelling_, mode of, across the deserts, 91—93. On camels,
extraordinary mode of, 114.
_Tribute_, how collected in Fezzan, 74.
_Tripoli_, markets of, 12. Bazaars, ibid. Schools, ibid. Prevalence
of drunkenness there, 13. Filthy practice of eructation, in all
classes, 14. All offices held by Mamlukes, ibid. Description of
the public baths, 14, 15. The Bashaw’s guards, 16. The punishment
of hanging, how performed, ibid.
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