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Mysteries of the Libyan Desert

Chapter 35: FOOTNOTES:
By W. J. Harding King
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A record of three years of exploration across the central Libyan Desert that blends travel narrative, scientific observation, and ethnography. Journeys between oases and over dunes, ridges, and rocky plateaus are recounted alongside maps, photographs, and sketches. Geological, botanical, and meteorological notes and practical observations on camel travel, water sources, and desertcraft are interwoven with descriptions of settlements, craft, and domestic life in places such as Dakhla, Kharga, Farafra, and Rashida. Encounters with local leaders and Senussi sites add cultural context to accounts of archaeological remains, wildlife, and the practical challenges of prolonged work in a waterless region.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]Trifolium Alexandrinum, L.

[2]Medicago Sativa (Lucerne).

[3]An ardeb = 300 lbs.

[4]Peasant of the Nile Valley or oasis.

[5]“The Libyan Desert from Native Information,” R.G.S.J., Sept., 1913.

[6]“Travels in the Libyan Desert,” R.G.S.J., Feb., 1912.

[7]“The Farafra Depression and Bu Mungar hattia,” R.G.S.J., Nov., 1913.

[8]“The Farafra Depression and Bu Mungar hattia,” R.G.S.J., Nov., 1913, pp. 455-461.

[9]“Travels in the Libyan Desert,” R.G.S.J., Feb., 1912.

[10]See R.G.S.J. “The Nature and Formation of Sand Ripples and Dunes,” March, 1916, pp. 189-209. “Study of a Dune Belt,” January, 1918, pp. 16-33. Discussion on the latter paper, April, 1918, pp. 250-258.

[11]“Customs, Superstitions and Songs of the Western Oases,” Cairo, Aug., 1914.

[12]“Irrigation in Dakhla Oasis,” R.G.S.J., Nov., 1917.

[13]“The Geographical Distribution of some Plants from the Libyan Desert,” Cairo, Oct., 1913.

[14]Calotropis procera.

[15]Malva parviflora, L.

[16]p. 146.

[17]p. 262.

[18]“North American Deserts.” Prof. D. T. MacDougal, R.G.S.J. Vol. XXXIX, No. 2.

[19]“Problems in Exploration: Africa.” By F. R. Cana, R.G.S.J., Nov., 1911, p. 464.

[20]See also “The Libyan Desert from Native Information,” R.G.S.J., Sept., 1913.

[21]Hassanein Bey’s observations have shown that Rohlfs’ position for Boema in Kufara is some twenty-five miles in error.

[22]See note on p. 319.

[23]“The Sand Dunes of the Libyan Desert.” By H. L. Beadnell, R.G.S. Vol. XXXV, p. 383

[24]p. 96.

[25]See p. 90.

[26]“Note sur quelques stations nouvelles, ou peu connu, de pierres écrites du Sahara,” par M. Q. B. M. Flamand.

[27]Waddington and Hanbury, “Journal of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia,” 1882. Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 268.

[28]Oric Bates, “Nomad Burials in Marmarica.” “Man,” Vol. XII. No. 10.

[29]“Note sur quelques stations nouvelles, ou peu connu, de pierres écrites du Sahara,” par G. M. B. Flamand, p. 9.

[30]Referred to by G. B. M. Flamand, op. cit.

Transcriber's note:

  • pg 181 Changed: excessively attentuated to: attenuated
  • pg 205 Changed: probably ocherous to: ochreous
  • pg 223 Changed: for my longtitudes to: longitudes
  • pg 256 Changed: is the anniversay to: anniversary
  • pg 341 Changed: See Qasr el Gushda to: Guehda
  • The illustrations, 'Senussi Zawia at Smint', 'Old ’Alem, “Valley of the Mist”', listed both under HALF-TONES and IN THE TEXT in the LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS have been removed from the HALF-TONES section.
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