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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Heinrich Barth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Heinrich Barth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Heinrich Barth
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465543317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1297

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Mr. Richardson was waiting in Paris for despatches, when Mr. Overweg and I reached Tunis, by way of Philippeville and Bona, on the 15th of December, 1849; and having, through the kind interference of Mr. Ferrier, the British vice-consul, been allowed to enter the town after six days’ quarantine, we began immediately to provide ourselves with articles of dress, while in the meantime we took most interesting daily rides to the site of ancient Carthage. Having procured many useful articles for our journey, and having found a servant, the son of a freed slave from Gober, we left Tunis on the 30th of December, and passed the first night in Hammám el Enf. Early next morning we followed the charming route by Krumbália, which presents a no less vivid specimen of the beauty and natural fertility of the Tunisian country than of the desolate state to which it is at present reduced. We then passed the fine gardens of Turki, a narrow spot of cultivation in a wide desolate plain of the finest soil; and leaving el Khwín to our right, we reached el Arbʿain. Both these places enjoy a peculiar celebrity with the natives. El Khwín is said to have been once a populous place; but nearly all its inhabitants were destroyed by a spring of bituminous water, which according to tradition, afterwards disappeared. El Arbʿain, the locality of the “forty” martyrs, is a holy place; and ʿAli, our muleteer, in his pious zeal, took up a handful of the sacred earth and sprinkled it over us. It is a most picturesque spot. Keeping then along the wild plain covered with a thick underwood of myrtle, we beheld in the distance the highly picturesque and beautiful Mount Zaghwán, the Holy Mountain of the ancient inhabitants, which rose in a majestic form; and we at length reached Bir el buwíta, “the well of the little closet,” at one o’clock in the afternoon. The “little closet,” however, had given place to a most decent-looking whitewashed khán, where we took up our quarters in a clean room. But our buoyant spirits did not allow us long repose; and a quarter before eleven at night we were again on our mules. I shall never forget this, the last night of the year 1849, which opened to us a new era with many ordeals, and by our endurance of which we were to render ourselves worthy of success. There were, besides ourselves, our servants, and our two muleteers, four horsemen of the Bey, and three natives from Jirbi. When midnight came my fellow traveller and I saluted the new year with enthusiasm, and with a cordial shake of the hand wished each other joy. Our Mohammedan companions were greatly pleased when they were informed of the reason of our congratulating each other, and wished us all possible success for the new year. We had also reason to be pleased with them; for by their not inharmonious songs they relieved the fatigue of a long, sleepless, and excessively cold night. Having made a short halt under the olive-trees at the side of the dilapidated town of Herkla, and taken a morsel of bread, we moved on with our poor animals without interruption till half an hour after noon, when we reached the funduk (or caravanserai) Sidi Bú Jʿafer, near Súsa, where we took up our quarters, in order to be able to start again at night, the gates of the town being kept shut till morning. Starting before three o’clock in the morning, we were exactly twelve hours in reaching el Jem, with the famous Castle of the Prophetess, still one of the most splendid monuments of Roman greatness, overhanging the most shabby hovels of Mohammedan indifference. On the way we had a fine view, towards the west, of the picturesque Jebel Trutsa, along the foot of which I had passed on my former wanderings, and of the wide, out-stretching Jebel Useleet.

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Henry Barth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382316579
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Heinrich Barth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Author: Heinrich Barth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108029477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 743

Book Description
This pioneering work of African exploration and ethnography, cited by Darwin, is still considered an important source on African cultures.

North Africa: Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco

Author: Lehnert & Landrock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : de
Pages : 258

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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa PDF Download

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa

North Africa: Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco

Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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