Updated: September 18, 2025
I have found two ways of spelling Timbuctoo in The Desert, viz., تِن٘بُك٘تُوا, and تِن٘بُك٘تُا, and they both agree with Batouta. We may, therefore, consider Batouta's style of spelling the more correct orthography. Now, تين, Teen, in Touarghee, is "well" or "pit."