1st Edition

Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28 to Morocco, 1824-28

1024 Pages
by Routledge

1024 Pages
by Routledge

Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME: CHAPTER XIX.  Departure for Timbuctoo on the 18th of March CHAPTER XX Tongom, a village in the country of the Diriman CHAPTER XXI Journey from Cabra to Timbuctoo CHAPTER XXII Departure from Timbuctoo on the 4th of May 1829 CHAPTER XXIII Violence of the West Winds CHAPTER XXIV Well of Amoul-Gragin CHAPTER XXV Country of el-Drah-Zwat-el-Hamid CHAPTER XXVI Description of Tafilet and its commerce CHAPTER XXVII Description of el-Fez GEOGRAPHICAL REMARKS AND INQUIRIES CHAPTERS I-V

Biography

RÈNÈ CAILLIÈ