Northwest afrika. Murzuk in tripoli

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Coming back, Bart has crossed desert, having passed through Murzuk in Tripoli, and autumn of 1855, after long-term and magnificent work in the North Africa, has reached England.

' As my travel, he-wrote,-have captured territory, an extent in 24 ° from the north on the south and in 20 ° from the east on the West in the widest part of the African continent, I have necessarily seen the diversified and interesting things. Having passed extensive deserts with absolutely fruitless soil and encountering scenes of the most terrible desolation, I entered the fertile areas irrigated big navigable, by the rivers and extensive, in the centre by located lakes, decorated with the finest woods and various kinds of bread making in unlimited abundance, rice, kunzhuta and a peanut, just as a sugar cane and such most valuable subjects of trade, as a clap and indigo. All Central Africa from Bagirmi in the east to Timbuktu in the west abounds with such products. Natives of these areas not only spin and weave own matters, but also paint the domotkannye shirts them made the indigo. The glorified Niger, which east branch (Benue) opened by me, gives access to this area, represents a continuous navigable way, an extent more than in 600 miles, the leader in the heart of the country. The western branch (actually Niger) on distance approximately 350 miles from coast interrupts thresholds; but even here at the existing technics of navigation these thresholds, perhaps, will not appear at all impassable; above their river represents huge tysjachemilnuju the road conducting in internal areas of the Western Africa, so rich with any products '.