[DOC] [TLE] Timbuktu - Wikipedia [PAR] Timbuktu also spelled as Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo is a historical and 
still-inhabited ... However, the golden age of the city, during which it was a major 
learning .... Like other important Medieval West African towns such as Djenn ..... 
Cailli characterising Timbuktu as "a mass of ill-looking houses built of earth". [DOC] [TLE] In Search of John Brown's Timbucto, Part II | W. Caleb McDaniel [PAR] Sep 3, 2010 ... Surely in both cases the name referred to the African city of Timbuctoo or 
Timbuktu. ... of why Timbuctoo we need to know what Americans between 1820 
and ... It's a portrait that includes not just John Brown, but an early ... But in 1828, 
a Frenchman named Ren Cailli finally reached the fabled city and... [DOC] [TLE] Exploring Africa - Thomas Cooper Library - University of South ... [PAR] Island 4: West Africa, the Niger, and the Quest for Timbuktu . ..... London: William 
Daniell, 1820. ..... only with an umbrella, till on April 20th 1828 he reached the 
fabled city, ... "nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses, built of earth," situated "in 
an ... reproduced from Rene Caillie, Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo. [DOC] [TLE] Exploring Africa - University of South Carolina Libraries - Rare ... [PAR] Travels in the interior districts of Africa : performed under the direction and .... 
inland, armed only with an umbrella, till on April 20th 1828 he reached the fabled 
city, ... He found "nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses, built of earth," situated 
"in an ... reproduced from Rene Caillie, Travels through Central Africa to 
Timbuctoo [DOC] [TLE] The fabling of Timbuktu  a primer | The World [PAR] Jan 30, 2013 ... The adjective often used to describe the desert city is fabled  but what is ... By 
the time the young Frenchman Ren Cailli arrived there, ... But Timbuktu did 
experience a golden age  Cailli was just a few centuries too late to see it. ... 
succeeded the Empire of Ghana as West Africa's paramount nation. [DOC] [TLE] Fred | Travels in Africa | Page 4 [PAR] TRAVELS IN AFRICA: Mbere, Kenya, 1971, part three  May 7, 2015 / Fred / 0 
Comments ... Only a dozen Mbere boys had ever achieved this accomplishment. [DOC] [TLE] Timbuktu - WikiVisually [PAR] Oct 5, 2016 ... Timbuktu is poorly connected to the Malian road network with only dirt roads to 
the ... Timbuktu as "a mass of ill-looking houses built of earth". ... This 
development shifted the city's reputation  from being fabled .... Jackson 1820, p. 
10. .... Cailli, Rn (1830), Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "A Book of Discovery The History of the World's ... [PAR] It is only necessary to compare this map with the mythical geography represented 
in ..... A Portion of Africa illustrating Cadamosto's Voyage beyond Cape Blanco . 
..... by a strange ship evidently bent on finding out where these unknown islands 
lay. ...... The city presented nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses, built of earth. [DOC] [TLE] Timbuktu : definition of Timbuktu and synonyms of Timbuktu (English) [PAR] Like other important Medieval West African cities  such as Jenn, Gao, and Dia, 
... A century and a half later, in around 1510, Leo Africanus visited Timbuktu. .... 
Ren Caill was the first non-Muslim to enter the forbidden city of Timbuktu. ..... 
Cailli characterising Timbuktu as "a mass of ill-looking houses built of earth". [DOC] [TLE] H. M. Stanley and the Literature of Exploration - King's College London [PAR] H. M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and ... Stanley 
Archive, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. TDC ..... Following 
Baudelaire and Benjamin, Berman emphasises the city as a ...... In 1820 there 
were ...... The French explorer Ren Cailli became the first non-Muslim to return 
alive to. [DOC] [TLE] The new global economy

Question: In the 1820s Rene Caillie traveled to this fabled African city only to find "a mass of ill-looking houses built of earth"
Answer: Timbuktu