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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

My Friends—The Arab Áhmed bel Mejúb—The Púllo Íbrahím from
      the Senegal—Dangerous Medical Practice—Áhmed the Traveller—My
      Bórnu Friends—The Vizier el Háj Beshír; his Career; his
      Domestic Establishment; his Leniency—Debts of the Mission
      paid—The English House—Plague of Insects—Preparations for
      a Journey—Character of Kúkawa—The Two Towns—The Great
      Market—Business and Concourse—Defective Currency—Prices of
      Provisions—Fruits—Camels—Horses—Want of Native Industry—Bórnu
      Women—Promenade.

                              CHAPTER XXXI.

  THE TSÁD                                                             386

      Character of the Road to Ngórnu—Ngórnu—Searching the
      Tsád—Longer Excursion—Character of the Shores of the Tsád—The
      Búdduma and their Boats—Fresh Water—Swampy Plains—Boats of the
      Búdduma again—Maduwári—Dress of the Sugúrti—Account of the
      Lake—Shores of the Creek—Sóyorum—Káwa—Return to Kúkawa—Servants
      Dismissed—Mohammed Titíwi the Auspicious Messenger—Slave
      Caravan—Announcement of Rainy Season—Ride to Gawánge—Mr.
      Overweg’s Arrival—Meeting—Property restored—Mercantile
      Intrigues—The Sheikh’s Relatives—Messengers from
      Ádamáwa—Anticipated Importance of the Eastern Branch of the
      Niger—Proposed Journey to Ádamáwa.

                             CHAPTER XXXII.

  SETTING OUT ON MY JOURNEY TO ÁDAMÁWA—THE FLAT, SWAMPY GROUNDS
    OF BÓRNU                                                           401

      Leaving Kúkawa—The Road Southwards—Inhospitality near the
      Capital—Buying with a Shirt—The Winter Corn—The Shúwa
      Arabs—Múngholo Gezáwa—Fair Arabs—Magá District—The Gámerghú
      District—District of Ujé—Fine Country—Mábaní—Pilgrim
      Traders, Banks of the Yáloë—First View of the Mountains—Fúgo
      Mozári—Market of Ujé—Aláwo—Approach to Mándará.

                             CHAPTER XXXIII.

  THE BORDER COUNTRY OF THE MARGHÍ                                     410

      Question about Snowy Mountains—The Blacksmith—Shámo District—A
      Storm—Molghoy—The Southern Molghoy—Large Kúrna-trees—Structure
      of the Huts—Deviations from Negro Type—The Marghí, their
      Attire and Language—Edible Wild Fruits—The Baobab—Beautiful
      Scenery—Íssege—Spirit of the Natives—Degenerate Fúlbe—The
      Lake—View of Mount Míndif—Wándalá Mountains—Route to Sugúr—The
      Marghí Tribe—Scientific Dispute—Unsafe Wilderness—Unwholesome
      Water—The Return of the Slave Girl—The Bábir Tribe—Laháula—The
      Idol—Alarm—Abundance of Vegetable Butter—Serious March—The Báza
      Tribe—The Dividing Range—Úba—The New Colony.

                             CHAPTER XXXIV.

  ÁDAMÁWA—MOHAMMEDAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE HEART OF CENTRAL AFRICA        428

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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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