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, Volume 2Drallop, publishing Company, 1857 - Africa, Central |
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... direction , till , after a sanguinary struggle , it conquered Kánem , and forced the Kanúri dynasty to seek refuge in the western provinces of its empire about the year 1400 of our era . The Bórnu empire ( if we may give the name of ...
... direction , till , after a sanguinary struggle , it conquered Kánem , and forced the Kanúri dynasty to seek refuge in the western provinces of its empire about the year 1400 of our era . The Bórnu empire ( if we may give the name of ...
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... direction , but his efforts seem to have resembled the convulsions of death , and , being succeeded by an iudolent king , for such was A ́hmed , the fatal hour which was to accomplish the extinc- tion of the dynasty of the Séfuwa ...
... direction , but his efforts seem to have resembled the convulsions of death , and , being succeeded by an iudolent king , for such was A ́hmed , the fatal hour which was to accomplish the extinc- tion of the dynasty of the Séfuwa ...
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... direction of the rivers . He was a shrewd and very intelligent man , yet he was one of those Arabs who go round all the courts of the princes of Negroland , to whatever creed or tribe they may belong , and endeavor to obtain from them ...
... direction of the rivers . He was a shrewd and very intelligent man , yet he was one of those Arabs who go round all the courts of the princes of Negroland , to whatever creed or tribe they may belong , and endeavor to obtain from them ...
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... direction of Sháwi , and that the water is thenceforth from one to two fathoms deep . I invari- ably understood from all the people with whom I spoke about this interesting lake , that the open water , with its islands of ele- vated ...
... direction of Sháwi , and that the water is thenceforth from one to two fathoms deep . I invari- ably understood from all the people with whom I spoke about this interesting lake , that the open water , with its islands of ele- vated ...
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... direction of the expedition , and to ask for means ; it was then Titíwi again who brought me the most honorable dispatches from the British government , authorizing me to carry out the expedition just as it had been intended , and at ...
... direction of the expedition , and to ask for means ; it was then Titíwi again who brought me the most honorable dispatches from the British government , authorizing me to carry out the expedition just as it had been intended , and at ...
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A'damáwa afternoon Alí Arabs army arrived Bagírmi belonging Bénuwé Berber Bórnu Bulála called camels capital cattle chief clay companions considerable consisting corn course court-yard cultivated Dár-Fúr deléb-palm distance district Dúnama east Edrís encampment expedition feet Felláta forest formed former Fulbe governor groland ground Háj hamlets Hausa horsemen horses huts inhabitants journey Kánem Kánembú Kanó Kanúri Kashélla king Kúka Kúkawa lake large place length Leo Africanus lieutenant governor Logón M'allem M'awó majesty's government mentioned miles Mohammed morning mountain mounted Músgu natives Negroland neighboring noon o'clock obliged obsv'n Omár Overweg pagan passed present prince principal province quarters rain rainy season reached regions reign remarkable residence returned river road scarcely seems seen shade Shárí sheikh shore Shúwa side slaves soon sorghum sultan Tebu tent tion town trees tribe Tsád village vizier Wádáy wadi Wára water-course Welád whole
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Page 122 - which I of course declined, of identifying me with their god "fete," who, they thought, might have come to spend a day with them, to make them forget their oppression and misfortunes. The pagans, however, at length left me when night came on, but the Fulbe girls would not go, or, if they left
Page 145 - of the water was first indicated by numbers of high ant-hills, which, as I shall have occasion to observe more fully in the course of my narrative, abound chiefly in the neighborhood of rivers: they were here ranged in almost parallel lines, and afforded a very curious spectacle.
Page 150 - European influence and commerce will penetrate into the very heart of the continent, and abolish slavery, or, rather, those infamous slave-hunts and religious wars, destroying the natural germs of human happiness which are spontaneously developed in the simple life of the pagans, and spreading devastation and desolation all around. We descended
Page 199 - fighting, and he whose cock prevails in the combat is also the winner in the point of litigation. But more than that, the master of the defeated cock is punished by the divinity whose anger he has thus provoked, and on returning to his village he finds his hut in flames.
Page 383 - Kebbi, there is a natural passage navigable without further obstruction for boats of about four feet in depth, and the Mayo Kebbi itself, in its present shallow state, seems to be navigable for canoes or flatbottomed boats like those of the natives, which I have no doubt may, during the highest state of the
Page 508 - of Arabic literature, but who had even read (nay, possessed a manuscript of) those portions of Aristotle and Plato which had been translated into, or rather Mohammedanized in Arabic, and who possessed the most intimate knowledge of the countries
Page 146 - upward to the steep eastern foot of the Alantika. The river, below the junction, keeping the direction of the principal branch, but making a slight bend to the north, ran along the northern foot of
Page 146 - from this point not much inferior to the principal river, and coming in a fine sweep from the southeast, where it disappeared in the plain, but was traced by me, in thought,
Page 244 - our right was a whole herd of elephants, arranged in regular array like an army of rational beings, slowly proceeding to the water. In front appeared the males, as was evident from their size, in regular order; at a little' distance followed the young ones; in a third