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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 4 (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. 4 (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. 4 (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

TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES
                                   IN
                       NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA.
                                VOL. IV.


                                LONDON:
                     PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.
                           NEW-STREET SQUARE.


[Illustration: Drawn by J. M. Bernatz, from a Sketch by Dr. Barth.

M. & N. Hanhart, lith. et impt.

TIMBÚKTU.

from the Terrace of the Traveler’ House]

                        TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES
                                   IN
                       NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA:
                                BEING A
                        JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION
                               UNDERTAKEN
               UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H.B.M.’S GOVERNMENT,
                              IN THE YEARS
                               1849-1855.

                                   BY
                       HENRY BARTH, PH.D., D.C.L.
        FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL AND ASIATIC SOCIETIES,
                               _&c. &c._

                            IN FIVE VOLUMES.
                                VOL. IV.

                                LONDON:
              LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.
                                 1858.

                _The right of translation is reserved._




                                CONTENTS
                                   OF
                           THE FOURTH VOLUME.

                               * * * * *


                             CHAPTER LIII.
                                                                    Page

  Departure for Timbúktu. — The Hilly North-Western
  Provinces of Bórnu                                                   1


My Situation at the Death of Mr. Overweg. — Pecuniary Circumstances. —
Inroad of the Tawárek. — Take Leave of the Sheikh. — Projects. — My
Servants. — The two freed Africans. — The Méjebri. — Encampment in
Kalíluwá. — Great Cold. — Súwa Búwa. — District of Koyám. — The old
Inhabitant of Birni. — Fertile Districts. — The farming Village. — The
Drain of the Komádugu. — Fractions of Tribes. — Character of the
Komádugu. — Fúlbe Cattle-Breeders. — Site of Ghasréggomo. — The Ruins.
— The Komádugu at Zéngiri. — Considerable Current. — Province of Manga.
— Manga Warriors. — Manga Females. — Borzári. — The Bedde and their
Komádugu. — Meeting with Mohammed ben Áhmed. — Daring Theft. — Wall of
Gesma. — Immense Anthills. — Donárí. — Reach again Zurríkulo.

                               CHAP. LIV.

  The Mountainous Territory of Múniyó and its Governor                42

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