Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government in the years 1849-1855 (1857)
Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865, Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924, former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 403
Cuar. LXIL. CASTELLATED MOUNDS. DoD After passing this mound, and following a more north-westerly direction, we approached another mound, rising from the plain like an isolated cone, and with its steep, narrow, and rugged crest, looking exactly like the ruin of a castle of the middle ages. … Leaving this mound, together with the path leading to the Songhay town of Léro on our right, we ap- proached the southern foot of another castellated mound, which stretched out to a greater length, but offered in its rugged and precipitous cliffs, exactly the spectacle of crenellated walls and…
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