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 — John Shaqi
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
Barth, Heinrich
Africa, Central -- Description and travel; Africa, North -- Description and travel
[Footnote 1: This is the map which was published by Mr. Petermann, in
the account of the progress of the Expedition to Central Africa, adding
from Mr. Richardson’s and Mr. Overweg’s journals, which I had sent home,
an outline of those districts visited by themselves alone.]
[Footnote 2: See Vol. II. p. 272.]
[Footnote 3: See Vol. II. p. 276.]
[Footnote 4: See Vol. III. p. 348, note.]
[Footnote 5: The depth of the well measured twenty-two fathoms.]
[Footnote 6: This is a complaint to which almost every European in these
climes is exposed, and from which Clapperton suffered very severely. I
found the best remedy to be mai-kadeña butter, which is very cooling;
but in the eastern part of Bórnu it is rarely to be met with.]
[Footnote 7: See Vol. II. p. 274.]
[Footnote 8: Compare what I have said with regard to the periods of the
rising and decreasing of this river in Vol. III. p. 474.]
[Footnote 9: Vol. II. p. 644.]
[Footnote 10: The intelligent Arab Ben ʿAlí, in the interesting account
which he gave to Lucas (Proceedings of the African Association, vol. i.
p. 148), distinctly states the number of gates as seven; but it is
remarkable that, in all the accounts of the taking of the place by the
Fúlbe, mention is only made of two gates, and it is still evident, at
the present time, that the western and the eastern gates were the only
large ones.]
[Footnote 11: It must be this circumstance (which to the natives
themselves, in the degenerate age of their later kings, appeared as a
miracle) which caused the report that in Ghámbarú and Ghasr-éggomo there
were buildings of the time of the Christians.]
[Footnote 12: I do not know exactly whether the ford has been called
after this tribe; but the name Zénghiri also occurs in other
localities.]
[Footnote 13: These people wanted in general nothing but cloves. I
however succeeded in buying a sheep from them for eight gábagá, at the
rate of eight drʿa each.]
[Footnote 14: To this province, although I do not know by what
particular name it is called by the natives, belong the following
places, besides Mámmarí or Mómmolí:—Katíkenwá (a large place),
Gubálgorúm (touched at by me on my former route) at a short distance to
the S.E., Tafiyóri E., Keríbúdduwa, Mainé, Nay, Mammed Kanúri, Mʿadi
Kúlloram, Kará ngámduwá to the N., Kériwá, Dúggulí, Gúdderam, Ngabóliya,
Kajimma, Alaúne, Nghurútuwa, Bam. The place Shégori, although situated
within the boundaries of this province, forms a separate domain of Malá
Ibrám.]
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