road-traces

Updated: August 1, 2026

There are a few places where no road-traces are apparent to the European eye, but the well-practised eye of the Bedouin camel-driver, like the eye of the Indian in the American Wilderness, can see things, and shapes, and signs in The Desert which entirely escape us. Along the line of route small heaps of stone are placed, said by my Marabout "to point out the way."

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