LIST OF PLATES.
- I.—Portrait of the Author. To face title Vol. I.
- II.—General map.
- III.—Itinerary map.
- IV.—A woman of Timbuctoo.
- V.—M. Caillié meditating upon the Koran,and taking his notes.
- IV.—Plan of the great mosque ofTimbuctoo, and a view of it taken from the E. N. E.
- V.—Details of the great mosque ofTimbuctoo.
- VI.—View of part of the town ofTimbuctoo, taken from the summit of a hill to the E. N. E.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY O. SCHULZE,13, POLAND STREET.
GENERAL MAP
OF THE
TRAVELS OFM. CAILLIE
TO JENNÉ AND TIMBUCTOO,
AND ACROSS THE SAHARA,
in 1827, & 1828.
Drawn by M. JOMARD
Member of the Royal Institute of France
1829
TRAVELS
THROUGH
CENTRAL AFRICA
TO
TIMBUCTOO;
AND
ACROSS THE GREAT DESERT, TO MOROCCO;
PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1824-1828.
BYRÉNÉ CAILLIÉ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1830
PREFACE.
I offer, at length, to the public the narrative of my travels inthe interior of Africa, which should have appeared long since;several causes have, however, concurred during the fifteen monthsthat have elapsed since my return to my native soil, to retard itspublication till the present time. I have brought home, from theregions I have traversed, only fugitive and very laconic notes,written in haste and trepidation: they would have been inexorableevidences against me, had I been surprised tracing unknowncharacters, and unveiling as it were to the Whites the mysteries ofthese countries. In Africa, especially in those districts occupiedby the Foulahs and the Moors, religious hypocrisy in a stranger isthe most flagrant of outrages, and it were a hundred times betterto pass there for a Christian, than for a false Mahome