 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...from this point; but towards the east the view extended over a wide expanse of the desert, and towards the south the elevated mansions of the Ghadamsiye...interest, although, the streets being very narrow, only httle was to be seen of the intercourse carried on in them, with the exception of the small market... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1858 - 678 pages
...extended over a wide expanse of the desert, and towards the south, the elevated mansions of the Ghadamsye merchants were visible. The style of the buildings...huts of matting. The sight of this spectacle afforded mo sufficient matter of interest, although, the streets being very narrow, only little was to be seen... | |
 | Robert Richardson - Africa, Central - 1893 - 376 pages
...characters, some low and unseemly, others rising with a second story in front to greater elevation, the whole being interrupted by a few round huts of matting. The streets being very narrow, only little was to be seen of the intercourse carried on in them, with the... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 590 pages
...point ; but, towards the east, the view extended over the wide expanse of the desert, and, towards the south, the elevated mansions of the Ghadamsiye...view on account of its situation on the slope of the sand hills, which in course of time had accumulated round the mosque.' — Vol. iv., p. 441. Timbuctu... | |
 | 1858 - 518 pages
...this point ; but towards the east the view extended over a wide expanse of the desert. and towards the south the elevated mansions of the Ghadamsiye...the streets being very narrow, only little was to be seeu of the intercourse carried on in them, with the exception of the small market in the northern... | |
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Jmgere-ber, was seen from this point; but towards the east the view extended over a wide expanse of the desert, and towards the south the elevated mansions of the Ghadamsiye merchants were visible. The style of the buildings was various. I could see clay... 