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We commenced by unearthing various meteorological and astronomical instruments the thermometers of Baudin, Salleron, Fastre, an aneroid, a Fortin barometer, chronometers, a sextant, an astronomical spyglass, a compass glass.... In short, what Duveyrier calls the material that is simplest and easiest to transport on a camel.
Then came the night, that silent night in the desert of which Felicien David has so poetically told us the secrets. During the following hours the course lay southwesterly, cutting across the routes of El Golea, one of which was explored in 1859 by the intrepid Duveyrier. The darkness was profound.
They often give concerts, to which the men come “from long distances decked out like male ostriches.” In these concerts the women improvise the songs, accompanying themselves on the tambourine and a sort of violin or rebâza. They are much sought after in marriage, because of the title of cherif which they confer on their children. Ibid., p. 387. Duveyrier, op. cit., p. 430. Ibid., p. 362.
"And he began to tap on the window-panes against which the rain was beating furiously. "'My dear Count, said Mocquard, taking a chair, 'it is very simple. You have doubtless heard of a young explorer of promise, M. Henry Duveyrier. "I shook my head as a sign of negation, very much surprised at this beginning.
Again the initiative in courtship is taken by the woman, who chooses from her suitors the one whom she herself prefers. Duveyrier, Toûareg du Nord, p. 337 et seq. Chavanne, Die Sahara, pp. 181, 209, 234. It is interesting to note that the Targui women know how to read and write in greater numbers than the men.
Ibid., p. 347. There is a touch of chivalrous sentiment in the relations between men and women. “If a woman is married,” Duveyrier tells us, “she is honoured all the more in proportion to the number of her masculine friends, but she must not show preference to any one of them.
"'M. Duveyrier, continued Mocquard, 'has returned to Paris after a particularly daring trip to South Africa and the Sahara. M. Vivien de Saint Martin, whom I have seen recently has assured me that the Geographical Society intends to confer its great gold medal upon him, in recognition of these exploits.
Even better than I, you know that the cross is with them the symbol of fate in decoration. Duveyrier has claimed that it figures in their alphabet, on their arms, among the designs of their clothes.
On the way, for every explorer has his pet fancy, I was not at all displeased to think that I would have a chance to examine the geological formation of the plateau of Egere, about which Duveyrier and the others are so disappointingly indefinite. Everything was ready for my departure from Wargla. Everything, which is to say, very little.
These chiefs, five of them, among them Sheik Otham, Amenokol or Sultan of the Confederation of Adzjer, arrive to-morrow morning at the Gare de Lyon. M. Duveyrier will meet them. But the Emperor has thought that besides....
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