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
Torture in use there, ibid.
Bastinado, how performed, 17. Marriages and burials of, 18, 19.
Adventures of a Tripoline woman, 321. The Author’s interview with
the Bashaw of, on his return from his mission to the interior,
349. Geological observations on the mountains and rocks of,
361—369.
_Tripolines_, dress of, described, 6, 7, 17, 18.
_Tsād_, a river of Bornou, account of, 124, 125. Extraordinary
mode of crossing it, 124. Notice of the inhabitants in its
vicinity, 125.
_Tuarick_ (an African tribe), costume of, 109, 110. Arms, 110.
Superstitions, 111. Language, ibid. Their extraordinary aversion
to washing, ibid. Religion, 112. Notice of their chief towns, 113.
Their government, ibid. Trade, 114. Their extraordinary mode of
travelling on camels, 114, 115. Articles of commerce between them
and Tuat, 159, 160. Anecdote of one, 197.
_Tuat_ (country), situation, productions, and trade of, 143.
Itinerary from Morzouk thither, 144.
_Tubbel_, or drum of Fezzan, account of, 248, 249.
_Usadena_, villages of, 32. Their distressed state, ibid.
_Vocabulary_ of the language of Bornou, 122. Of Sakkatoo, 135—138.
Of Tembuctoo, 146, 147. Of Soudan, or the Haousa tongue, 149—151.
Of the Tibboo dialect, 232. Of Sockna, 314—316.
_Wadan_, (a town of Fezzan), notice of, 76. Character of its
inhabitants, ibid.
———, (an animal and chain of mountains so called), account of, 76.
_Waday_ country, articles of export to, from Fezzan, 152—154.
Articles given in exchange, 154—157. Distance from the Tibboo
country to, 230, 231. Itinerary to, from Borgoo, 267.
_Wad el Nommel_, or the valley of ants, wretched village of, 87.
_Wadey_, a species of desert, notice of, 346.
——— Shirghi, chief towns in, 300.
——— Ghrarbi, chief towns in, ibid. Character and manners of the
inhabitants of, ibid, 301.
_Wajunga_ people, notice of, 252. Account of their country, 266.
_Waled Suliman_, an Arabian tribe, account of, 54—56.
_Warr_, a species of desert, notice of, 345.
_Warral_, a species of lizard, notice of, 184, 185.
_Washing_, singular aversion to, of the Tuarick, an African tribe,
111.
_Water_, Arab mode of carrying across the deserts, 93. How raised
for irrigating the land near Morzouk, 169. How obtained from the
stomach of camels, to satisfy the thirst of almost perishing
travellers, 305.
_Wells_ of the great desert, observations on, 348.
_Werda_, itinerary to, from Yen, 265.
_Wishek_, a species of desert, notice of, 345
_Women_ of Tripoli, dress of, described, 17, 18. Arabian dress of,
39, 40. Conditions and dress of the women of Bornou and Soudan,
161. And of the Tibboo women, 224—227. Of the women in Fezzan, 287.
_Wudakaire_, wells of, 223.
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