 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1871 - 428 pages
...of Bornou, the ruins of the principal buildings are of * Expedition to Zambezi, p. 636. brick. But " in the present capital not the smallest approach is made to this more solid mode of architecture."* Dr. Barth continues : " It cannot be doubted that the old capital contained a great deal of barbaric... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1871 - 454 pages
...Ghasr-eggomo, the ancient capital of Bornou, the ruins of the principal buildings are of brick. But " in the present capital not the smallest approach is made to this more solid mode of architecture."* Dr. Barth continues: " It cannot be doubted that the old capital contained a great deal of barbaric... | |
 | John D. Baldwin - Social Science - 1988 - 420 pages
...now a mass of ruins, the principal buildings were made of brick ; but " in the present capital cot the smallest approach is made to this more solid mode of architecture." Dr. Barth adds : " It cannot be doubted that the old capital contained a great deal of barbaric magnificence,... | |
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... a day's march across, was little more than six English miles in circumference, being encompassed by a strong wall, with six or seven gates; which, in its present dilapidated state, forms a small ridge, and seems clearly to indicate that, when the... 