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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : $b being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855 — John Shaqi

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : $b being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855Barth, Heinrich

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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : $b being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Name: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : $b being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855
Author: Barth, Heinrich

Barth, Heinrich

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

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

                                CHAP. V.

  Sculptures and Roman Remains in the Desert. — Gharíya              112

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

                               CHAP. VI.

  Wádí Sháti. — Old Jerma. — Arrival in Múrzuk                       143

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

                               CHAP. VII.

  Residence in Múrzuk                                                164

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

                              CHAP. VIII.

  The Desert. — Tasáwa. — Exactions of the Escort. — Delay
  at Eláwen                                                          171

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

                               CHAP. IX.

  Singular Sculptures in the Desert. — The Mountain-pass             194

Hatíta. — Sculptures in Telísaghé. — Subject of Sculptures, Two Deities
Fighting about a Bull. — Herd of Bulls. — Cattle formerly Beasts of
Burden in the Desert. — Fine Valleys. — Breaking up of the Plateau. —
The Narrow Gutter-like Pass of Ralle. — Téliya. — Sérdales. — Valley
Tánesof. — Mount Ídinen. — The Traveller’s Mishap. — Astray in the
Desert. — The Wanderer Found. — Arrival at Ghát.

                                CHAP. X.

  The Indigenous Berber Population                                   223

Fezzán, a Berber Country. — The Berbers. — Their Real Name
Mázígh; the Name Tawárek of Arab Origin. — The Azkár. — History of
the Azkár. — The Hadánarang. — Degraded Tribes. — The Imghád. — The
Kél. — View of the Valley of Ghát.

                               CHAP. XI.

  Crossing a large Mountain-ridge, and entering on the open
  gravelly Desert                                                    241

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