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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 467

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Cuar. LXXXV. FIRST DAY’S MARCH. All the necessary supplies in the Tebu country. The Daza, or Bulguda, who were to join us on the march, had been encamped in this spot since the previous day. From here we pursued our road to Ngégimi; but the aspect of the country had greatly changed since I last… … not having yet retired within its ordinary boundaries. The whole shore seemed to have given way and sunk afew feet. Besides this changed aspect of the country, several hamlets of Kanembu cattle-breeders, such as represented in the accompanying woodcut, caused great relief and animation.

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