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Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Chapter 49: Transcriber's note:
By Heinrich Barth
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A travel journal recounts an overland expedition through the Sahel and Sahara margins toward the great western trade towns, recording routes, camps, and the logistics of caravan travel. It combines vivid topographical and climatic description with detailed notes on settlements, wells, oases, lakes, ruins, and agricultural practices, and sketches social life including markets, local authorities, and interactions with diverse peoples. Episodes describe dangerous incursions, slave-raiding and banditry, commercial arrangements, and the challenges of navigation and supplies. Organized as sequential regional chapters, it alternates day-to-day diary entries, ethnographic observation, and practical surveying to produce a practical and observational account of the journey.

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Transcriber's note:

  • Dotless yā’ ى has been transcribed as yā’ ي, except in Appendix VIII.
  • The position of diacritics in Appendix VIII. has often been adjusted based on the German edition.
  • In Appendix IX. some text has been marked to indicate alignment between columns.
  • Changes in the ERRATA have been done, as well as the following:
  • pg 37, Changed: "hence the precarious. allegiance" to: "hence the precarious allegiance"
  • pg 153, Changed: "incur the se-severest condemnation" to: "the severest"
  • pg 378, Changed: "very often less Besides the" to: "very often less. Besides the"
  • pg 411, footnote 93, Changed: "See Vol. I. p. 323, note." to: "p. 333"
  • pg 481, Added ” after: "or the “Sane-gungu"
  • pg 481, footnote 136, Changed: "Kasbah, Ah´med Bábá’s account" to: "Áhmed"
  • pg 523, Changed: "are the places Alíbaná, Bidáji" to: "Alíbawá"
  • pg 542, Changed: "bokki meams baobabs" to: "means"
  • pg 568, Changed: "الفُلأَن" to: "الفُلَان"
  • pg 569, Changed: "لبى حام الالى" to: "لبنى"
  • pg 569, Changed: "حُرّا نصيعـــ" to: "نصيعـــا"
  • pg 572, Changed: "ابوا ونبوا عن كلّ" to: "من"
  • pg 619, Changed: "Ís-hák thereforere crossed the river" to: "therefore"
  • pg 625, Changed: "Thus wrote old Bábá Ah´med" to: "Áhmed"
  • pg 627,, footnote 240, Changed: "Gråberg de Hemso̊" to: "Hemsö"
  • Minor changes in punctuation have been done silently.
  • Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.
  • New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.