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
Barth, Heinrich
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Africa, North -- Description and travel
are at present reduced to extreme poverty, and to a very small number,
said not even to reach ten families. But they have still a very large
number of Imghád under their command. Their women are celebrated for
their beauty. They are most of them settled in the valley of Díder. The
third division of the Azkár, to which Hatíta, the friend of the English,
belongs, are the Manghássatang, or Imaghássaten, whose leather tents are
generally pitched in the valley of Zerzúwa, on the road from Ghát to
Tawát, about six days’ journey from the former.
The three clans, or “Tiyúsi,” which I have mentioned, constitute at
present, strictly speaking, the family of the Azkár, the other two
divisions, viz. the Ífogas and the Hadánarang, having separated from the
rest, and broken in some way the national bond which formerly united them
with the others. One of them, the Ífogas, are scattered over the whole
desert, some having settled among the Kél-owí at a place called Tórit, on
the road to Damerghú; another section dwells in the more favoured valleys
to the east of Mabrúk; while a small portion of this tribe remains in
the territory of the Azkár, where they have their abode in the valley of
Áfara, about half-way between Ghát and Tawát. The second of these tribes,
viz. the Hadánarang, is settled in a place called Ádemar, not far from
the southern frontier of the territory of the Azkár, in the midst of the
Imghád. They are, to some extent at least, migratory freebooters; and to
them belonged those robbers who, soon after we had fortunately got out of
their clutches, murdered two Tébu merchants on the road from Aïr to Ghát,
carrying away their whole caravan, with no less than thirty-three slaves.
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