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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

Taking Leave of Tin-téggana. — Trachytic Peak of Teléshera. — Valley of
Tánegat. — The Salt-caravan. — Wild Manners of the Tawárek. — Mount
Mári. — Richer Vegetation. — Well Álbes. — Tebu Merchants. — Chémia. —
Mount Bághzen. — Camels lost. — Rich Valley Unán. — Stone Dwellings of
Kél-gerés. — Christmas Day. — Taking Leave of Hamma.

                               CHAP. XXI.

  The Border-region of the Desert. — The Tagáma                      519

Travelling in earnest. — Home of the Giraffe and _Antilope leucoryx_. —
The Mágariá. — The _Cornus nabeca_ and the Feathery Bristle. — Princely
Present. — Animals (_Orycteropus Æthiopicus_). — The Tagáma; their
Peculiar character. — The Tarki Beauty. — New Plants. — Steep Descent.
— Ponds of Stagnant Water. — Corn-fields of Damerghú. — The Warlike
Chief Dan Íbra. — Ungwa Sámmit. — Negro Architecture. — Name of the Hut
in Various Languages. — Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms. — Horses
grazing. — Arrival in Tágelel. — The Ikázkezan Freebooter. —
Niggardliness of the Chief. — Towns and Villages of Damerghú. — The
Haunts of the Freebooters. — Market of Tágelel. — The “Devil’s Dance.”

                               * * * * *

                               APPENDIX.

                                   I.

  Route from Ágades to Sókoto                                        555

                                  II.

  Route from Ágades to Marádi, according to the Information of
  the Kél-gerés Gojéri and his Companion Gháser                      556

                                  III.

  Itinerary from Ágades to Damerghú, according to various
  Informants                                                         558

                                  IV.

  Route from Ágades to Bílma, according to the Émgedesi Éderi        558

                                   V.

  Route from Ágades to Tawát, according to ʿAbd-Alla                 560

                                  VI.

  Route from Ágades to the Hillet e’ Sheikh Sídi el Mukhtár
  in Azawád, according to the Kél-ferwán Baina                       568

                                  VII.

  Fragments of Meteorological Register                               571


[Footnote 5: “The people of Ágades at that time (the last quarter of the
last century)—though Ágades then belonged to the Cashna empire—were
annually permitted to load their immense caravans with the salt of
Bornou, from the salt lakes of Demboo” (the Tebu country?), “the
merchants of Ágades giving in return for the article a trifling price
in brass and copper.”—_Lucas, Proceedings of the African Association_,
vol. i. p. 159.]




                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
                                   IN
                           THE FIRST VOLUME.

                               * * * * *


                                 MAPS.

                                                                    Page

    I. General Map of Africa                           _to face Preface_

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