Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu and the Western SudanCentury Company, 1927 - 251 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 135
... the coast , but to get the far more reliable type of servant to be found in the interior . At Bamako through the request of the Governor , the administrateur summoned for inspection a bright , cheerful young Black who THE NIGER 135.
... the coast , but to get the far more reliable type of servant to be found in the interior . At Bamako through the request of the Governor , the administrateur summoned for inspection a bright , cheerful young Black who THE NIGER 135.
الصفحة 158
... administrateur , a sun- burned , robust French official , energetic in every word and movement , promptly gave orders to a native orderly to supply me with two horses , two horse boys and ten porters . Later , I received a document from ...
... administrateur , a sun- burned , robust French official , energetic in every word and movement , promptly gave orders to a native orderly to supply me with two horses , two horse boys and ten porters . Later , I received a document from ...
الصفحة 176
... administration is Bobo Djoulasso . The post here is an attractive one . Fine gardens sur- round the residence . The ... administrateur , a captain of troops , an inspector , a chief of postal service . A garage is main- tained , and ...
... administration is Bobo Djoulasso . The post here is an attractive one . Fine gardens sur- round the residence . The ... administrateur , a captain of troops , an inspector , a chief of postal service . A garage is main- tained , and ...
الصفحة 185
... administrateur of a cercle , did com- plain to me that the ex - soldier sometimes was a little difficult ; but on the other hand a high official , respon- sible for the order of a great region , was positive that no increased ...
... administrateur of a cercle , did com- plain to me that the ex - soldier sometimes was a little difficult ; but on the other hand a high official , respon- sible for the order of a great region , was positive that no increased ...
الصفحة 221
... administrateur . He may have an assistant administra- teur , a younger man in training for higher responsibili- ties , but in some cases he works alone , unaided by European collaborators and dependent only upon trained native help ...
... administrateur . He may have an assistant administra- teur , a younger man in training for higher responsibili- ties , but in some cases he works alone , unaided by European collaborators and dependent only upon trained native help ...
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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.