towaregs

Updated: June 5, 2025

To carry out this plan she would have to cross the country of the Towaregs, the treacherous "pirates of the Desert," the cruellest and falsest, and at the same time the bravest and handsomest, of the African tribes; and she provided herself, therefore, with a strong escort, consisting of three Europeans and forty-seven Arabs, well armed.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century