Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu and the Western SudanCentury Company, 1927 - 251 من الصفحات |
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... called Lake Chad , although this body of water , and the fertile lands which surround it , is rather a central point of Sudanese culture than a line of demarcation . The Eastern Sudan , with the exception of the western portion nearest ...
... called Lake Chad , although this body of water , and the fertile lands which surround it , is rather a central point of Sudanese culture than a line of demarcation . The Eastern Sudan , with the exception of the western portion nearest ...
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... called " douars " , or of rough huts of earth and branches called " noualas " . These transient homes are grouped in circles and in this way amid the dwellings is formed a corral where the animals are gathered at night for protection ...
... called " douars " , or of rough huts of earth and branches called " noualas " . These transient homes are grouped in circles and in this way amid the dwellings is formed a corral where the animals are gathered at night for protection ...
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... called ain in Arabic or Berber , give names to hundreds of localities . About a spring , there may develop a market place , where , on a certain day of the week , the tribesmen and villagers meet for exchange of produce and manufactures ...
... called ain in Arabic or Berber , give names to hundreds of localities . About a spring , there may develop a market place , where , on a certain day of the week , the tribesmen and villagers meet for exchange of produce and manufactures ...
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... called up and was being examined . All nationali- ties were included - French , naturalized Europeans , natives , and Jews . There was no discrimination . All were enrolled and subject to the same law of military service . Pains were ...
... called up and was being examined . All nationali- ties were included - French , naturalized Europeans , natives , and Jews . There was no discrimination . All were enrolled and subject to the same law of military service . Pains were ...
الصفحة 40
... called the Aïssawa . Here , as at Marrakech , further south , the squares of the native city are filled all day long with crowds watching wild half - naked men of the desert charm venomous reptiles . The snakes are three : the tiny asp ...
... called the Aïssawa . Here , as at Marrakech , further south , the squares of the native city are filled all day long with crowds watching wild half - naked men of the desert charm venomous reptiles . The snakes are three : the tiny asp ...
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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.