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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 42

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18 } TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Cuar. LXX. The great feature which distinguishes the market of Timbuktu from that of Kandé is the fact, that Timbuktu is not at all … small proportion of the population, and almost all the victuals are imported by water-carriage from San- sandi and the neighbourhood. The only manufactures carried on in the city, as far as fell under my observation, are confined to the art of the blacksmith, and to a little leather- work. Some of…

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