holy-merchant-marabout

Updated: April 30, 2025

This gave the coup de grâce to the unfortunate Regency of Tripoli, and plunged it into complete ruin. There was, however, one city, far in The Desert, which appeared unaffected by these sanguinary and wasting revolutions the holy-merchant-marabout city of Ghadames! the pacific character of whose inhabitants seemed to place it without the pale of such dire turmoils.

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