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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake ChadBarth, Heinrich

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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad

Name: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad
Author: Barth, Heinrich

Barth, Heinrich

Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Africa, North -- Description and travel

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                               CHAPTER I.

  FROM TUNIS TO TRIPOLI                                                  1

      The First Start—The Passage of the Syrtis—Little
      Progress—Trials of Temper—Our Companions—An Old Friend—Reach
      Tripoli.

                               CHAPTER II.

  TRIPOLI—THE PLAIN AND THE MOUNTAIN-SLOPE; THE ARAB AND THE BERBER      8

      An Excursion—Arab Encampments—Commencement of the Hilly
      Region—The Plateau—Turkish Stronghold—Berber Settlements—The
      Picturesque Fountain—Wady Welád ʿAli—Khalaifa—Beautiful
      Ravine—Um eʾ Zerzán—Enshéd eʾ Sufét—Roman Sepulchre—Kikla—Wady
      Kerdemín—Rabda—Kasr Ghurián—Mount Tekút—Kasr
      Teghrínna—Hanshír—Wady Rummána.

                              CHAPTER III.

  FERTILE MOUNTAIN REGION RICH IN ANCIENT REMAINS                       23

      Wady Rán—Jebel Msíd—Singular Monuments—Structure
      Described—Conjectural Character—Other Ancient Ruins—Approach
      to Tarhóna—The Governor’s Encampment—Ruins near ʿAín
      Shershára—Kasr Dóga—Kasr Dawán—Jebel Msíd—Meselláta—Kasr
      Kerker—The Cinyps—Leptis—Khoms.

                               CHAPTER IV.

  DEPARTURE FOR THE INTERIOR—ARRIVAL AT MIZDA—REMAINS OF A
    CHRISTIAN CHURCH                                                    38

      The Departure—ʿAín Zára—Mejenín—Wady Haera—The Boat crosses
      the Defile—Ghurián—Kuléba—Roman Milestones—Mizda—The Eastern
      Village—Jebel Durmán—Wady Sófejín—Ruined Castle—Christian
      Remains.

                               CHAPTER V.

  SCULPTURES AND ROMAN REMAINS IN THE DESERT—GHARÍYA                    51

      Roman Sepulchre in Wady Talha—Wady Tagíje—Remarkable
      Monument—Description of Monument—Wady Zemzem—Roman Sepulchres
      at Taboníye—Gharíya—Roman Gateway—Arab Tower—Roman
      Inscription—Gharíya eʾ sherkíya—The Hammáda—Storms in the
      Desert—End of the Hammáda—El Hasi, “the Well.”

                               CHAPTER VI.

  WADY SHÁTI—OLD JERMA—ARRIVAL IN MÚRZUK                                65

      Wady Sháti, or Shiyáti—Éderí and its Gardens—Wady Shiúkh—Sandy
      Region—Reach the Wady—Ugréfe—Jerma Kadím—The Last Roman
      Monument—The Groves of the Wady—End of the Wady—Arrival at
      Múrzuk.

                              CHAPTER VII.

  RESIDENCE IN MÚRZUK                                                   75

      Delay—Character of Múrzuk—Ground-plan of Múrzuk.

                              CHAPTER VIII.

  THE DESERT—TASÁWA—EXACTIONS OF THE ESCORT—DELAY AT ELÁWEN             78

      Setting out from Múrzuk—Tiggerurtín, the Village of the
      Tinýlkum—Gathering of the Caravan—Tasáwa—Arrival of the
      Tuarek Chiefs—Reformation of Islám—Return to Múrzuk—Move on
      finally—Sháraba—Wady Aberjúsh—Rate of Travelling—Join the
      Caravan—Tesémmak—Wady Eláwen—Hatíta’s Intrigues.

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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : $b Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad

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