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 87
The country then became gradually more open, scarcely a single tree being met with, and we obtained a distant view of Gure, situated at the southern foot and on the lower slope of a rocky eminence, when we began to descend considerably along the shelving ground of the expansive plain laid out in… … downs which border the south side of a concavity or dell surrounding the town on this side, and laid out in small kitchen-gardens and cotton plantations as shown in the accompanying woodcut; for, notwith- E 2
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