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Excerpt from Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 of 5: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M. ''S Government, in the Years 1849 1855
ON the 5th of October, 1849, at Berlin, Professor Carl Ritter informed me that the British government was about to send Mr. Richardson on a mission to Central Africa, and that they had offered, through the Chevalier Bunsen, to allow a German traveler to join the mission, provided he was willing to contrib ute two hundred pounds for his own personal traveling expenses.
I had commenced lecturing at the University of Berlin on comparative geography and the colonial commerce of antiquity, and had just at that time published the first volume of my Wanderings round the Mediterranean, which comprised my journey through Barbary. Having undertaken this journey quite alone, I spent nearly my whole time with the Arabs, and familiarized myself with that state of human society where the camel is man''s daily companion, and the culture of the date-tree his chief occupation. I made long journeys through desert tracts; I traveled all round the Great Syrtis, and, passing through the picturesque little tract of Cyrenaica, traversed the whole country toward Egypt; I wandered about for above a month in the desert valleys between Aswan and Koser, and att erward pursued my journey by land all the way through Syria and Asia Minor to Constantinople.
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ON the 5th of October, 1849, at Berlin, Professor Carl Ritter informed me that the British government was about to send Mr. Richardson on a mission to Central Africa, and that they had offered, through the Chevalier Bunsen, to allow a German traveler to join the mission, provided he was willing to contrib ute two hundred pounds for his own personal traveling expenses.
I had commenced lecturing at the University of Berlin on comparative geography and the colonial commerce of antiquity, and had just at that time published the first volume of my Wanderings round the Mediterranean, which comprised my journey through Barbary. Having undertaken this journey quite alone, I spent nearly my whole time with the Arabs, and familiarized myself with that state of human society where the camel is man''s daily companion, and the culture of the date-tree his chief occupation. I made long journeys through desert tracts; I traveled all round the Great Syrtis, and, passing through the picturesque little tract of Cyrenaica, traversed the whole country toward Egypt; I wandered about for above a month in the desert valleys between Aswan and Koser, and att erward pursued my journey by land all the way through Syria and Asia Minor to Constantinople.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Henry Barth
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ISBN - 9780331810240
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Page Count - 683
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