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However, L. Ideler held that even before the time of Mohammed the Arab year was lunar and vague, and that intercalation was only employed in order to fix the pilgrimage month in autumn, which, on account of the milder weather and the abundance of food, is the best time for pilgrims to go to Mecca. E. Doutté, Magie et Religion dans l'Afrique du Nord, pp. 496, 509, 532, 543, 569.
A livelier function was a banquet given to Baudin at the Hotel de la Rochefoucauld, in Paris, on the 7th Fructidor, by the Societe de l'Afrique Interieure. There was music, and song, and a long toast list, with many eloquent speeches.
A foothold once gained, the rest was easy. It was to this land, lying ready to his use, that Captain Urūj Barbarossa came in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Le Comte de Mas-Latrie, Relations et commerce de l'Afrique Septentrionale avec les nations chrétiennes au moyen âge, pp. 175-9.
M. Adanson was in this part of Africa, from 1749 to 1753; his chief study and investigation seems to have been directed to conchology; and the descriptions and admirable plates in his book, certainly leave little to be desired on this subject. There are besides remarks on the temperature, productions, economy, and manufactures of the country. Nouvelle Histoire de l'Afrique Française.
The adventurers, it is said, carried on a good trade till 1430-90, when the civil wars distracting France left her without stomach for distant adventure; and in 1452 Portugal walked over the course. Also 'Iles de l'Afrique, in the Univers. Barbot's details are circumstantial, but they have not been confirmed by contemporary evidence or by local tradition.
Voyage de M. Levaillant, dans l'Intérieur de l'Afrique, 1780-85. Paris, 2 vols. 8vo. Second Voyage, 1783-1785. Paris, 3 vols. 8vo. These Travels, which have been translated into English, possess a wonderful charm in the narrative, attained, however, too often by the sacrifice of plain and unadorned truth, to the love of romance and effect.
He sent against me Hassan the Hilali, I went to meet him and said, 'Seize this wretched dog. These are the words of the Zoght Dyab ben Ghanem and the fire of illness was lighted in his breast." R. Basset. Un Episode d'une chanson de geste Arabe sur la seconde conquête de l'Afrique Septentrionale par les Mussulmans. Bulletin de Correspondence Africaine, p. 147. Alger, 1885, in 8vo.
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