The rider on a horse image is from a book by Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton held in the Hoover Institution Library. The caption under the image, which is opposite page 64 in the book, reads -
Body Guard
of the Sheikh of Bornou
From a sketch by Major Denham
Engraved by E. Finden
Published Feb. 1820 by John Murray, London.
Author(s): Denham, Dixon, 1786-1828.
Clapperton, Hugh,; 1788-1827.
Oudney, Walter,; 1790-1824.
Salamé, Abraham V.
Title: Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern
and Central Africa :
in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824
Publication: London : John Murray,
Year: 1826
Description: [i]-xlviii, [1]-335 [1] p., 2 leaves, [1]-269 [1]
p. : ill., maps, facsim. ; 28 cm.
SUBJECT(S)
Natural history -- Africa.
Africa, Central -- Description and travel.
Africa, North -- Description and travel.
Note(s): The appendix (p. [139]-269 at end) contains: No.
i-xvi. Translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents
brought from Bornu and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton.
By A. Salame.--No. xvii-xx. Bornu. Begharmi, Mandara and Timbuctoo
vocabularies.--No. xxi. Zoology.--No. xxii. Botanical appendix. By
Robert Brown.--No. xxiii. Letter to Major Denham on rock specimens ...
by Charles König.--No. xxiv. Thermometrical journal kept in Kouka and
Bornu.
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May 21, 2007
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