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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

Leaving Kanó quite by myself—My Trooper—Get off later—Domestic
      Slavery—Gezáwa—My Runaway Servant ʿAbdallah—The
      Sheríf and his Attendants—Mules in Negroland—Kúka
      Mairuwá—Insecurity—Scarcity of Water—Natron Trade—Endurance
      and Privations of the Traveller—Arrival at Gerki—Take
      Leave of Háusa—Gúmmel—Housebuilding—Antidote—Market at
      Gúmmel—Magnitude of Ilóri—Two Spanish Dollars—Depart from
      Gúmmel—Benzári—The Rebel Chief Bokhári—His Exploits—The
      Governor of Máshena—Letter-carrier’s Mistake—Curious
      Talisman—Manga Warriors—Wuëlleri—Scarcity of Water again—Town
      of Máshena—State of the Country—Cheerful, Out-of-the-way
      Place—Álamáy—Búndi and the Gháladíma—The Kárda—Route from Kanó
      to Álamáy by Way of Khadéja.

                             CHAPTER XXVII.

  BORNU PROPER                                                         333

      Intercourse—Change of Life in Negroland—Region of
      the Dúm-palm—The Kúri Ox—The River Wáni—Enter Bórnu
      Proper—Zurríkuló—News of the Death of Mr. Richardson—Sandy
      Downs—Déffowa—Industry—The Stray Camel—Town of Wadi—Good
      Market and no Provisions—Hospitable Treatment—The Banks of the
      Wáni—Locusts and Hawks—Ngurútuwa; Grave of Mr. Richardson—The
      Tuarek again—Aláune—The Jungles of the Komádugu—Ruins of
      Ghámbarú—A Forest Encampment—Nomadic Herdsmen—Abundance of
      Milk—Ford of the Komádugu—Native Ferry-boats—Khér-Álla, the
      Border-warfarer—Changing Guides—The Runaway Horse—A Domestic
      Quarrel.

                             CHAPTER XXVIII.

  ARRIVAL IN KÚKAWA                                                    352

      Peculiar Character of the Alluvial Plains of Bórnu—The
      Attentive Woman—Entrance into Kúkawa—Servants of the
      Mission—Debts of the Mission—Interview with the Vizier—Sheikh
      ʿOmár—Mr. Richardson’s Property—Amicable Arrangements.

                              CHAPTER XXIX.

  AUTHENTICITY AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HISTORY OF BÓRNU           357

      Documents—Beginning of written History—Pedigree of the Bórnu
      Kings—Chronology—Harmony of Facts—The Séfuwa Dynasty—Ébn
      Khaldún—Makrízí and Ébn Batúta—Surprising Accuracy of the
      Chronicle of Bórnu—Statement of Leo Africanus—Berber Origin
      of the Séfuwa—Form of Government—The Berber Race—The Queen
      Mother—Indigenous Tribes—The Tedá or Tebu—The Soy—Epochs of
      Bórnu History—Greatest Power—Decline of the Bórnu Empire—The
      Kánemíyín.

                              CHAPTER XXX.

  THE CAPITAL OF BÓRNU                                                 369

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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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