Mount Konkel 446 The Governor’s Audience-hall 463 Picturesque Cone 476 Ground-plan of Hut in Múbi 480 Household Furniture 480 Handbill 482 Shield 484 Different Shape of Huts 489 Granary 569 Harpoon 596 Ornamented Granary 601 Ground-plan of Building 602 [Illustration: MAP OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA, SHOWING DR. BARTH’S ROUTES.] TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA. CHAPTER I. FROM TUNIS TO TRIPOLI. Mr. Richardson was waiting in Paris for despatches, when Mr. Overweg and I reached Tunis, by way of Philippeville and Bona, on the 15th of December, 1849; and having, through the kind interference of Mr. Ferrier, the British vice-consul, been allowed to enter the town after six days’ quarantine, we began immediately to provide ourselves with articles of dress, while in the meantime we took most interesting daily rides to the site of ancient Carthage. Having procured many useful articles for our journey, and having found a servant, the son of a freed slave from Gober, we left Tunis on the 30th of December, and passed the first night in Hammám el Enf. Early next morning we followed the charming route by Krumbália, which presents a no less vivid specimen of the beauty and natural fertility of the Tunisian country than of the desolate state to which it is at present reduced. We then passed the fine gardens of Turki, a narrow spot of cultivation in a wide desolate plain of the finest soil; and leaving el Khwín to our right, we reached el Arbʿain.