fireing

Updated: August 4, 2026

Of this all the doors of the houses and the lighter works are made. Wood for fireing is brought in from The Sahara, but from a great distance. It is sold for three Tunisian piastres the camel-load. It is the common brush-wood, underwood, or scrub of The Desert, and is excessively dry, for withered and dead trees or shrubs are gathered.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846