Sudan (Region) -- Historical geography
The following Essay owes its origin wholly to the extracts from the writings of Ibn Khaldún and Ibn Baṭúṭah, which you had the kindness to communicate to me. Not only did you occasion the present developement of my speculations, but you have also at all times cheerfully aided...
The following Essay owes its origin wholly to the extracts from the writings of Ibn Khaldún and Ibn Baṭúṭah, which you had the kindness to communicate to me. Not only did you oc...
2. Part 2A desert of forty days’ journey in extent lay between Aúdaghost and Támedelt,[9] a town of Sús el Aḳṣa, on the verge of the desert, and eleven days from Sijilmésah. The two mont...
3. Part 3Having thus examined the routes from Sijilmésah to Ghánah, and briefly surveyed the state of the western deserts, with a view to illustrate the geographical position of the latt...
4. Part 4Of the laws and usages of Ghánah, such as were capable of enduring after subjection to a foreign power and conversion to the Mohammedan faith, but scanty notices have been trans...
5. Part 5[Footnote 31: El Bekrí (Not. et Extr. 624) gives to the absolutely waterless desert between Sijilmésah and Ghánah, an extent of eight days’ journey. Sheríshí, in his commentary...
6. Part 6[Footnote 73: Marmol (vol. III. fol. 17). Yça, that is, Issa, (Hissa in Caillié’s vocabulary) signifies _river_ in the language of Tomboktú. The Serakholies inhabit Galam. The T...
7. Part 7The Western Desert is represented by El Idrísí with the changed aspect consequent on the movement of the Morabites. The Lumtúnah had gone northwards to Morocco, and the Benú God...
8. Part 8“Abú Abdullah Mohammed Ibn Wásúl, a native of Sijilmésah, and who inhabited for a long time the city of Kaúkaú, in their country (_i.e._ in the empire of Málí), where he perform...
9. Part 9But the arrangements of Mansá Suleïmán’s court did not betray the sordid disposition imputed to him. They appear to have been conceived in a style of rude pomp and majesty no lo...
10. Part 10By the possession of Múlí the people of Málí had ready ingress into the countries whence slaves were taken, but there is no authority whatever for the supposition that they ever...
11. Part 11[Footnote 149: The superiority of the people of Guber is plainly asserted by Sultan Bello, who says (Appendix to Denham and Clapperton’s Travels, 8vo. II. p. 450) that they alon...
12. Part 12[Footnote 164: Oonbori, possessed by the Benú Hami of the tribe of Sokai (App. to Clapperton’s Journal of a Second Expedition, p. 331), is probably the Anbárah of El Bekrí (see...
13. Part 13In modern accounts of Negroland, frequent mention is made of a race of cannibals, styled Yemyem or N’yemn’yem; and every precise indication of them, from whatever quarter it may...
14. Part 14In the Geographical Dictionary of Yakút, an earlier writer than Ibn Sʿaíd, and who is copied with little change by Abú-l-fedá, the names Kúra and Jábí occur together, with such...
15. Part 15[Footnote 206: Afnú is the name given by the people of Bornú to Houssa (Lucas in Proc. Afr. Assoc. I. p. 165), or the eastern part of it. Einsiedel (Cuhn’s Merkw. Reisen. III. p...
16. Part 16Mohammed Masíní, describing the Kowára, says, “this great river issues from the Mountain of the Moon; and what we know of it is, that it comes from Sookan (Sókaí) to Kiya (Kiyaú...