1st Edition

Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28 Volume 2

By Rene Caillie Copyright 1968

    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 Dirimans. CHAPTER XXI. Journey from Cabra to Timbuctoo CHAPTER XXII. Departure from Timbuctoo on the 4th of May 1828. CHAPTER XXIII. Violence of the east winds CHAPTER XXJV. Wells of Amoul-Gragin. CHAPTER XXV. Country of ei-D1·ah-Zawat.-el-Hamid CHAPTER XVI Description of Tafilet and its commerce CHAPTER XXVII Description of ei-Fez France GEOGRAPHICAL REMARKS AND INQUIRIES CHAPTER I. I.-General retrospect of the published information on this subject prior to M. Caillies’ travels. II.-Analysis of the itinerary map, and of the general map of the travel. CHAPTERS III to V.

    Biography

    Rene Caillie