garden-huts

Updated: June 6, 2025

Within this circle, at the base of the various groups, are black-green palms, scattered in little forests, casting shades on the now white, now light red, and now purple mountain sides, as if to set off the perspective of The Desert picture. Here and there are garden-huts or lodges in the wilderness, so many black spots within little squares of pale-green patches of corn cultivation.

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