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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uldgo immediately if the powder was not used against them. Saidtook them at their word, and they ran off. They had already,however, carried away about nine pounds of tea, packed in tinboxes. It is probable they mistook these boxes of tin forsilver, or considered their contents to be money, gold, andsilver, although their lightness should have undeceived them.As the Arabic Bibles and Testaments were packed up with thetea, they carried off a Bible with them. But this they after-wards dropped on the road, and it was picked up by a shep-herdess and brought to me. They also took away a pewterdish, and two bags of ground ghaseb, besides ripping openthe bags of the blacks. This appears to be the amount of therobbery and devastation. Very fortunate are we it was notworse. We had watched many nights, and had often loadedour guns ; but this night, when the thieves came, we were mise-rably unprepared to receive them. The Germans had beencleaning their guns, and all were unloaded. Overweg had his
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ASSURANCES OF PROTECTION. 95 fowling-piece charged with small shot. At length we got twoor three guns in trim, and our servants followed the robbers;but nothing of them was to be seen. The cowards had fledat the first show of resistance. In the morning, on searching• through the small valley up which they had come, we were sur-prised to find marks of no less than thirteen camels —• enoughto carry away all our goods. So that it is probable therewere some thirteen robbers, a part of whom remained with thecamels whilst the others attacked us. Amankee, on beingknocked down with a shield, got up again and ran off to thetown, giving the alarm everywhere.) But immediately after this accident, proceeds Dr. Barth, wereceived the distinct assurance of protection both from theSultan of Agades and from the great mallem Azori; and Ibegan to plan my excursion to Agades more definitely, andentered into communication with the chief on this point.Meanwhile I collected a great deal of information

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