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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ther, I complained bitterly of their breaking their word sorepeatedly and putting off my departure so continually. Theythen endeavored to soothe my disappointment, and, as theywere going into the town, wanted me to go along with them,but I declined. In consequence of this remonstrance theysent me from the town the sheikhs nephew, who had been illfor several days, to bear me company and to take care of me,and this was a great treat in my solitary situation, as I hadnobody to speak to. However, new difficulties appeared toarise with regard to my departure, and, during the next fewdays, I received several curious messages, the real purport ofwhich I was quite at a loss to understand. But El Bakay atlength promised that I should only have to wait two dayslonger, when he would go with me himself; but it was not tillthe very last day in March that he returned from the town tothe camp, and, although he at length brought my luggagewith him, my real departure was even then still far remote. IM
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Ss^*imiemK (478) LIFE IN THE CAMP. 4? 9 During this time I had especially to contend against the in-trigues of my head man Ali el Ageren, who seemed to findthe stay in Timbuktu at my expense (where he himself wasquite safe and well off, and could do what he liked) quite plea-sant and comfortable. He was therefore in no hurry to leave,but rather tried every means in his power to counteract my en-deavors for a speedy departure. An extraordinary degree ofpatience was therefore necessary on my part, and I was obligedto seek relief from the tediousness of my stay here in everylittle circumstance that broke the uniform tenor of my mono-tonous life. A great source of entertainment to me were the young sonsof my protector, Baba Ahmed and Zen el Abidin, who werecontinually wrangling about all sorts of articles, whether theybelonged to the one or the other; my tent and my horse form-ing the chief objects of their childish dispute. And I wasgreatly amused, at times, at the younger boy placing hi

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