Sahara

Name: Sahara
Author: Buchanan, Angus

Buchanan, Angus

Natural history -- Sahara; Sahara -- Description and travel

And it may be a fitting finish to give Ali’s description of the
desert that we had left behind.

“Gentle people, I salute you! I give you news of the desert. It
is a land of sand and wind and want. If you would visit it? tighten
your belt plenty, as a giant. There is no lying down in comfort,
for there is no medicine for the Sun by day, nor for the Great Winds
by night. There is never plenty food, and if water is not found,
then one dies—that is the desert!

“All my people ’fraid of that Sahara country, and plenty plenty
people say we no fit go, because robber people, no food, no water,
no sticks for fire, and all that.

“Only strong man fit go walka that country, and some strong men
begin to die after we go start.

“Plenty people tell master he go die, but master only say: ‘All
right, he go all same.’

“After I go look them desert, I think I no go live to see
England. But Allah is kind! and I have looked on this country,
which be plenty plenty fine—and I go my way in content.”




                              APPENDICES


                              APPENDIX I


             SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE OF SAHARAN BIRD LIFE

All numerals coincide with those before each common name in
Chapter XII.

    1. Numida galeata galeata.
    2. Coturnix coturnix coturnix.
    3. Fulica atra atra.
    4. Pterocles senegalensis senegalensis, and
        Pterocles senegallus.
    5. Pterocles coronatus coronatus.
    6. Pterocles lichtensteinii targius.
    7. Lissotis nuba.
    8. Eupodotis arabs.
    9. Hydrochelidon leucoptera.
   10. Himantopus himantopus himantopus.
   11. Tringa glareola.
   12. Tringa hypoleucos.
   13. Philomachus pugnax.
   14. Capella gallinago gallinago.
   15. Burhinus capensis maculosus.
   16. Tringa ochropus.
   17. Hoplopterus spinosus.
   18. Cursorius cursor cursor.
   19. Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis.
   20. Streptopelia roseogrisea roseogrisea.
   21. Streptopelia turtur hoggara.
   22. Œna capensis.
   23. Columba livia targia.
   24. Spatula clypeata.
   25. Anas acuta acuta.
   26. Anas crecca crecca.
   27. Anas querquedula.
   28. Dendrocygna viduata.
   29. Sarkidiornis melanotus.
   30. Alopochen ægyptiacus.
   31. Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax.
   32. Ardea purpurea purpurea.
   33. Butorides striatus atricapillus.
   34. Abdimia abdimii.
   35. Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus.
   36. Necrosyrtes monachus monachus.
   37. Neophron percnopterus percnopterus.
   38. Gyps rüppellii rüppellii
   39. Aquila rapax belisarius.
   40. Milvus migrans parasitus.
   41. Circus macrourus.
   42. Melierax musicus neumanni.
   43. Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides.
   44. Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus.
   45. Tyto alba affinis.
   46. Bubo africanus cinerascens.
   47. Bubo bubo desertorum.
   48. Otus scops scops.
   49. Otus leucotis leucotis.
   50. Athene noctua solitudinis, subsp. n.
   51. Clamator jacobinus pica.
   52. Chrysococcyx caprius chrysochlorus.
   53. Lophoceros erythrorhynchus erythrorhynchus.

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Sahara

Buchanan, Angus

Natural history -- Sahara; Sahara -- Description and travel

And it may be a fitting finish to give Ali’s description of the
desert that we had left behind.

“Gentle people, I salute you! I give you news of the desert. It
is a land of sand and wind and want. If you would visit it? tighten
your belt plenty, as a giant. There is no lying down in comfort,
for there is no medicine for the Sun by day, nor for the Great Winds
by night. There is never plenty food, and if water is not found,
then one dies—that is the desert!

“All my people ’fraid of that Sahara country, and plenty plenty
people say we no fit go, because robber people, no food, no water,
no sticks for fire, and all that.

“Only strong man fit go walka that country, and some strong men
begin to die after we go start.

“Plenty people tell master he go die, but master only say: ‘All
right, he go all same.’

“After I go look them desert, I think I no go live to see
England. But Allah is kind! and I have looked on this country,
which be plenty plenty fine—and I go my way in content.”




                              APPENDICES


                              APPENDIX I


             SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE OF SAHARAN BIRD LIFE

All numerals coincide with those before each common name in
Chapter XII.

    1. Numida galeata galeata.
    2. Coturnix coturnix coturnix.
    3. Fulica atra atra.
    4. Pterocles senegalensis senegalensis, and
        Pterocles senegallus.
    5. Pterocles coronatus coronatus.
    6. Pterocles lichtensteinii targius.
    7. Lissotis nuba.
    8. Eupodotis arabs.
    9. Hydrochelidon leucoptera.
   10. Himantopus himantopus himantopus.
   11. Tringa glareola.
   12. Tringa hypoleucos.
   13. Philomachus pugnax.
   14. Capella gallinago gallinago.
   15. Burhinus capensis maculosus.
   16. Tringa ochropus.
   17. Hoplopterus spinosus.
   18. Cursorius cursor cursor.
   19. Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis.
   20. Streptopelia roseogrisea roseogrisea.
   21. Streptopelia turtur hoggara.
   22. Œna capensis.
   23. Columba livia targia.
   24. Spatula clypeata.
   25. Anas acuta acuta.
   26. Anas crecca crecca.
   27. Anas querquedula.
   28. Dendrocygna viduata.
   29. Sarkidiornis melanotus.
   30. Alopochen ægyptiacus.
   31. Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax.
   32. Ardea purpurea purpurea.
   33. Butorides striatus atricapillus.
   34. Abdimia abdimii.
   35. Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus.
   36. Necrosyrtes monachus monachus.
   37. Neophron percnopterus percnopterus.
   38. Gyps rüppellii rüppellii
   39. Aquila rapax belisarius.
   40. Milvus migrans parasitus.
   41. Circus macrourus.
   42. Melierax musicus neumanni.
   43. Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides.
   44. Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus.
   45. Tyto alba affinis.
   46. Bubo africanus cinerascens.
   47. Bubo bubo desertorum.
   48. Otus scops scops.
   49. Otus leucotis leucotis.
   50. Athene noctua solitudinis, subsp. n.
   51. Clamator jacobinus pica.
   52. Chrysococcyx caprius chrysochlorus.
   53. Lophoceros erythrorhynchus erythrorhynchus.

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