Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu and the Western SudanCentury Company, 1927 - 251 من الصفحات |
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... Bamako only eleven Euro- peans remained alive . This number had been reduced to five , one of whom had gone mad , when , on the 19th of November , resolved to follow the Niger to its mouth , he embarked the survivors of his party on a ...
... Bamako only eleven Euro- peans remained alive . This number had been reduced to five , one of whom had gone mad , when , on the 19th of November , resolved to follow the Niger to its mouth , he embarked the survivors of his party on a ...
الصفحة 92
... Bamako , the capital of the French Sudan . Railroad building in Africa is in its infancy . Great projects , like the Cape- to - Cairo railway , which haunted the mind of Cecil Rhodes , are realizable and will transform this conti- nent ...
... Bamako , the capital of the French Sudan . Railroad building in Africa is in its infancy . Great projects , like the Cape- to - Cairo railway , which haunted the mind of Cecil Rhodes , are realizable and will transform this conti- nent ...
الصفحة 93
... Bamako I went down the Niger to Timbuktu . Then , setting out from Mopti , a place some days of boating up the Niger , I crossed the Sudan by way of Bandiagara and Ouahigouya , to Ouagadougou , an im- portant post in the center of the ...
... Bamako I went down the Niger to Timbuktu . Then , setting out from Mopti , a place some days of boating up the Niger , I crossed the Sudan by way of Bandiagara and Ouahigouya , to Ouagadougou , an im- portant post in the center of the ...
الصفحة 94
... , and the sea here receives the. --------- -DE : CORO SA , Saint Logis Senegal River Dakar SENEGAL Goree SUDA Kayes Segoy Roulikoro Bamako PORTU Konakry LIBERIA Bobo Djoulasso CÔTE D'IVOIRE Bouaké Abidjan Grand Bass SKETCH MAP OF.
... , and the sea here receives the. --------- -DE : CORO SA , Saint Logis Senegal River Dakar SENEGAL Goree SUDA Kayes Segoy Roulikoro Bamako PORTU Konakry LIBERIA Bobo Djoulasso CÔTE D'IVOIRE Bouaké Abidjan Grand Bass SKETCH MAP OF.
الصفحة 96
... Bamako on the Upper Niger , were better than anything of the kind that I had ever seen before . Of food , I carried to Africa none . At Bamako I obtained tea , coffee , cube sugar , a few jars of confiture and about a kilo of Roquefort ...
... Bamako on the Upper Niger , were better than anything of the kind that I had ever seen before . Of food , I carried to Africa none . At Bamako I obtained tea , coffee , cube sugar , a few jars of confiture and about a kilo of Roquefort ...
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administrateur administration Ahaggar Algeria American ancient Arab army Atlas Bamako Bandiagara beautiful Berbers black soldiers British building built called camels camp caravan Casablanca centuries cercle chief coast Colomb-Bechar colonial communities conquest cotton Dakar desert empire entered Europe European famous foreign forest Foucauld France French authority French Sudan French West Africa Fula governor Habés Haute hundred interest interior Kabara Kano kilometers Koulikoro Lake Chad land Marrakech médersa meharistes Meknes ment miles military Mohammedan Moorish Moors Mopti Morocco mosque Mossi mountains native negro Niger Nigeria Northern Nigeria oases officers organized Ouagadougou Ouahigouya plain population port posts Rabat race railroad reached region René Caillié river route Sahara sand seems Ségou Senegal Senegal River shore slave Spanish stream Sudan Sudanese sultan Taodéni Timbuktu tion town trade trees tribes troops tropical Tuareg valley village walls
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الصفحة 6 - Mr. Anderson and likewise Mr. Scott are both dead; but though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere; and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at last die on the Niger.
الصفحة 6 - ... you may believe me I am in good health. The rains are completely over, and the healthy season has commenced, so that there is no danger of sickness; and I have still a sufficient force to protect me from any insult in sailing down the river to the sea. " We have already embarked all our things, and shall sail the moment I have finished this letter.
الصفحة 5 - I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward. I hastened to the brink, and, having drank of the water, lifted up my fervent thanks in prayer to the Great Ruler of all things, for having thus far crowned my endeavours with success.
الصفحة 6 - I this day hoisted the British flag, and shall set sail to the east with the fixed resolution to discover the termination of the Niger or perish in the attempt.
الصفحة 6 - I am afraid that, impressed with a woman's fears and the anxieties of a wife, you may be led to consider my situation as a great deal worse than it really is. It is true, my dear friends, Mr. Anderson and George Scott, have both bid adieu to the things of this world ; and the greater part of the soldiers have died on the march during the rainy season ; but you may believe me, I am in good health. The rains are completely over, and the healthy...
الصفحة 156 - Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, and silver from the country of the white men, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are to be found only in Timbuktu.
الصفحة 25 - They are the monuments of the real religion of the country which is a worship of local saints and heroes, but such shrines have an important social influence, fixing the points of reunion and intercourse between communities and tribes and even giving rise to towns and sanctuaries, or zaouias, like the Biblical "cities of refuge.
الصفحة ix - ... form, that, at least for the present, it is impracticable to revise them. For this reason, I have written the name of the famous Saharan city, "Timbuktu," even though this spelling perpetuates an error.
الصفحة 26 - America is not fully intelligible until one has seen Barbary. The life of the larger part of the New World is full of arts, institutions, and terms of speech that have been brought from Africa by way of Spain.
الصفحة 14 - Bazin, Charles de Foucauld: explorateur du Maroc, ermite au Sahara (Paris, 1921), pp. 46-47; YD Sumach, "Charles de Foucauld et les Juifs marocains," in Bulletin de I'Enseignement public du Maroc (Juin 1936); M.