Timbuctoo

The Shereefs once pretended to exercise authority over all Western Sahara as far as Timbuctoo, that is to say, all that region of the great desert lying west of the Touaricks.

Travels in Morocco 2003

This cannot be the case with regard to Timbuctoo, which is visited by caravans twice a year from Morocco; nor is the name met with any where, except the two first syllables in the town of Timbo, which cannot be mistaken for Timbuctoo.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831 Various

Immense quantities of salt are also sent to Timbuctoo, which is for the most part collected at the mines of Tishet and Shangareen, (see the map of northern and central Africa, in the New Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,) through which the caravan would pass to Timbuctoo.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

The country lying to the south of Timbuctoo, which is on the threshold of the great Sahara desert, is the Sudan, otherwise called the Valley and the Buckler of the Niger.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

Timbuctoo, which is neither so large nor so well populated as Caillié expected, is altogether wanting in animation.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

During his captivity he collected many particulars regarding Timbuctoo, which is so difficult of access to Europeans, and was the bourne of all early

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

It was to have correspondents in all parts of the globe; everything that related to the chronicle of the mind, from the labor of the missionary in the South Sea Islands, or the research of a traveller in pursuit of that mirage called Timbuctoo, to the last new novel at Paris, or the last great emendation of a Greek particle at a German university, was to find a place in this focus of light.

The Caxtons — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Archaeological excavation of African American communities such as Timbuctoo is booming across the country, spurred by an increasing number of prominent black academics and politicians and a proliferation of museums dedicated to African American history, whose curators are eager to display the artifacts.

Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history 2010

Archaeological excavation of African American communities such as Timbuctoo is booming across the country, spurred by an increasing number of prominent black academics and politicians and a proliferation of museums dedicated to African American history, whose curators are eager to display the artifacts.

Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history 2010

a traveller in pursuit of that mirage called Timbuctoo, to the last new novel at Paris, or the last great emendation of a Greek particle at a

The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838