foot-travelling

Updated: May 21, 2025

There are no camel-caravans from Timbuctoo to Mellee and Furra; people go in small parties on horses and asses; some go alone on foot. Foot-travelling is very common in Central Africa; and these pedestrian merchants or pedlars will make journeys of three and four months.

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