Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, And Trade of the ...
Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, And Trade of the ...
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren, David Alphonso Talboys
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CHAP. Ti.] LAND TRADE. 115 Bornouy and frequently of those which come from Soudan.^ The inhabitants sell, at a high price, the necessaries of life to the half-&mished merchants. Dates are the only things to be had cheap and of any quantity. The cultivation of the date- palm, however, ends here. On the south of the city the de- sert immediately begins. The springs contain brackish water ; salt cannot, therefore, be wanted, although this is not express- ly remarked. The exact distance from Zuila,... as marked on Captain Lyon s chart, is one hundred and sixty miles ; which, according to the usual course of the caravans, certainly amounts to no more than eight days' journey.' I must leave my readers to choose whether they will take the day's journey at something shorter, or include the last two in the following station, which, as we shall presently see, amounts to something more than ten days' journey. Although Tegerry belongs to Fezzan, yet it is here, accord- ing to Captain Lyon, that the Arabian language ends and the Bomou b^ns.
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