 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1858 - 678 pages
...population, and almost all the victuals are imported by water carriage from Sansandi and the neighbourhood. The only manufactures carried on in the city, as far...bags, cushions, small leather pouches for tobacco, and gun cloths, especially the leather bags, are very neat. . . . The people of Timbuktu are veiy expert... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...to be classed as such. Almost the whole life of the city is based on foreign commerce, which, owing The only manufactures carried on in the city, as far...leather-work. Some of these articles, such as provision or luggage-bags, cushions, small leather pouches for tobacco, and gun-cloths, especially the leather bags,... | |
 | Robert Richardson - Africa, Central - 1893 - 376 pages
...sufficient quantities to feed even a very small proportion of the population. " The only manufactures of the city, as far as fell under my observation, are...guncloths, especially the leather bags, are very neat ; but even these are mostly manufactured at Tawarek, and especially by females, so that the industry... | |
 | Fanny Louisa Dorothea Herbertson - Africa - 1902 - 308 pages
...population, and almost all the victuals are imported by water-carriage from Sansandig and the neighbourhood. The only manufactures carried on in the city, as far...confined to the art of the blacksmith, and to a little leather work. Some of these articles, such as provision or luggage bags, cushions, small leather pouches... | |
 | 1858 - 518 pages
...population, and almost all the victuals are imported by water-carriage from Sansandi and the neighbourhood. The only manufactures carried on in the city, as far...leather-work. Some of these articles, such as provision or luggage-bags, cushions, small leather pouches for tobacco, and gun-cloths, especially the leather bags,... | |
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Some of these articles, such as provision or luggage-bags, cushions, small leather pouches for tobacco, and gun-cloths, especially the leather bags, are very neat ; but even these are mostly manufactured by Tawarek, and especially females, so that the... 