ghour

Updated: May 11, 2025

In the season the Arabs drink their leghma, and the Mahometan Negroes their bouza, the Soudanic merchants chew their ghour, nuts, and kouda, as our jolly tars their tobacco, and others munch the trona. My taleb came to me to see if I were dead. He had heard such a horrible report in the town.

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

Ghour, ‮قور‬, Sterculia acuminata, Pal. de Beauv. He did not know there was a new world before I told him. In their "Declaration of Independence," the Anglo-Americans say "All men are created equal," and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;" and "amongst these, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Celebration of Marriage. Native Feast of the Slaves.

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

Some, however, as a luxury, which their relations and friends send them from Soudan, masticate ghour -nuts, and which I believe is the kolat, or colat-nut of Caillié. The Arabs called these nuts the "Coffee of Soudan." Konja is a great place for the growth of the ghour, two or three months west of Kanou. 5th. Weather gets colder every day.

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

Provisions are also exported from Soudan and Aheer to this mart, consisting of semen or liquid butter; ghusub or drâ; ghafouly , sometimes called Guinea corn; hard cheese from Aheer, which is pounded before eaten; beef, cut into shreds, and without salt, dried in the sun and wind; peppers of the most pungent character, an extremely small quantity sufficing to season a large dish; a species of shell fruit, called by the Moors Soudan almonds ; bakhour, or frankincense; and ghour nuts and koudah, which are masticated as tobacco.

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

There is generally attached to it a good-sized red leather bag, not unlike an European lady's work-bag, and this is made into various compartments, one for tobacco, one for snuff, one for trona or ghour nuts, another for striking-light matters, another for needles and thread, another containing a little looking-glass, &c., &c.; and I have seen a Touarghee fop adjust his toilette with as much coquetry as the most brilliant flirt, indeed, the vanity of some of these Targhee dandies surpasses all our notions of vanity in European dress.

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