Identifier: travelsdiscoveri02bart (find matches)
Title: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa. From the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Barth, Heinrich, 1821-1865
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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; and, being desirous of employing every meansof becoming acquainted with new regions of this continent,we could not but avail ourselves of this opportunity, howeverdifficult it was for us, owing to our entire want of means, tomake the necessary preparations for another campaign, andalthough the destination of the expedition was not quitecertain. November 25th, 1851. Ten days after having returned toour head-quarters from the wearisome journey to Kanem, I leftKukawa again in order to join a new warlike expedition. The sheikh and his vizier, with the chief part of the army,had set out already the previous Saturday. The route hadnot yet been determined upon — it was, at least, not generallyknown : but Wandala, or, as the Kanuri call it, Mandara.,was mentioned as the direct object of the march, in order toenforce obedience from the prince of that small country, who,protected by its mountains, had behaved in a refractory man-ner. The chief motive of the enterprise, however, consisted in
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(251) THE CAMP. 253 the circumstance of the coffers and slave-rooms of the greatmen being empty; and, a new supply being wanted, fromwhence to obtain it was a question of minor importance.There was just then much talk about a final rupture betweenAbd e Rahman and the vizier, the former having intimaterelations with the Prince of Mandara ; and it was for that rea-son that Mr. Overweg had at first thought it better to remainbehind. My means were scanty in the extreme, and did not allow meto have a mounted servant, my camp-followers consisting merelyof the same naga or jige, as the Kaniiri call the femalecamel, which had proved of the highest value to me on thejourney to Kanem, and of two very indifferent Fezzani lads,weak in mind and body—Mohammed ben Habib and Moham-med ben Ahmed. The weather being temperate, and my spirits excellent, Ifollowed cheerfully the Ngornu road, with which I was wellacquainted. I met with my friend Haj Edris and ShitimaMakaremma, who were just returning fro

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