danmour

Updated: July 17, 2026

Two hundred camels were employed to convey heavy bales of "danmour," a stuff manufactured in Sennaar, and cargoes of tobacco. The first object of interest to the travellers was the Atbara, a tributary of the Nile, whose banks, with their verdant trees, were grateful to the eye after the sandy desert. The course of the river was followed as far as the fertile district of Taka.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century