CHAPTER XXV

By rail to Algiers — A difficult project — The resources of the Sahara 338

APPENDIX 341

INDEX 343

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Hoggar Tuaregs _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Barracks of the W.A.F.F. at Daru 24 River Moa, Sierra Leone 24 Baro Village 60 Native types at Kankan 74 M. Louis Novella at Sarafinian 100 A Senafou Native 100 Natives pounding rice at Tombola 108 The spread of Islam in the Western Soudan 112 The Railway Station and Hotel at Bamako 122 The Niger at Bamako 122 The Niger at Koulikoro 134 The Niger at Ségou 134 The Launch “Réné Caillé” 152 Steel Canoes on the Upper Niger 152 Mopti 160 A Captive Lioness at Mopti 166 Bambara Hunters 194 Canoes on the Bara-Issa 196 Women pounding rice 202 Fulanis at Bambara-Maaundé 206 Timbuctu 220 A scene outside the walls of Timbuctu 224 The departure from Gao 250 A Tuareg Herd, In Ouzel 254 The Wells of Tabankhor 258 A snapshot of the “King of Beasts” 258 My Kitchen in the Desert 264 The Sergeant of Tirailleurs 268 Méhariste Camels out at pasture 272 The Wells of Kidal 276 Sheep at the Wells of Bourassa 286 Tuareg hovels at In Ouzel 286 My Riding-Camel in the Sahara 290 My servant Musa in the Sahara 302 My Arab Guide Mahomed 306 Arab and Tuareg 312 Insalah Oasis 316 The Artesian Well of El Barka 318 The Market-place, Touggourt 318 The Spring of El Guettera 324 The Oasis of Ouargla 328 The Residency at Touggourt 332 Chamba Arabs at Touggourt 332 The Mosques at Ouargla 334 [Map]

THROUGH TIMBUCTU AND ACROSS THE GREAT SAHARA