Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-07
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:
THE SAHARA OF AFRICA,

10 form correct conception of the Sahara.
our readers must dismiss from their minds all
the old and fantastic conceptions which have
Deen ATTACHED from time immemorial to the in
terror OF Northern Africa Instead OF torrid
region where boundless steppes of burning sand
are abandoned to the rowing hogsaman OF tbs tes.
ert, and 10 It's beast Of prey, where the last ves-
tge OF Moorish civilization expire, LONG befora
the traveller at Negroland and the savage COM
mumues OF the lnteTor,the Sahara lie now ascer-
taineIto be vast archipelago of Oasas:-each
OF them poopled by tribe of tie Moorish race
or It's Offsets more civilized, and more capable of
receiving lessons of civilization, than the house
less Arabs OF the Tell; Culuvating the date tree
with application and ingenuity, inhabting walled
towns living under 4 regular government, for
lhe most OF popular ongln:--carryng 10 some
PERFECTION certain branches OF native manufac-
lures, and keeping up an extensive commercial
intercourse with the northern ard central PARTS
OF the African continent, and from Mogador TO
Mecca, by the enterprise and Authority Of their
caravans. Each Of the Gases Of tho Sahars-
which are divided from each other by sandy tracts
baarnT shrubs and plants fit only for tho nourisf.
m3nt OF cattie--prescnts an animated rroup of
towns and villages. Every viage.is enriched
by circle of fruit bearing trees. The palm is
the monarch OF their orchards--as much by the
grace OF lis form as by the value Of it's prodnc-
tons: and the pommegranate, the fig tree. and
the apricot cluster around its lofty stem, Ths
Lion, and other beasts of prey, with which poe
try has pcopled the African wilds, are only to
be met with in the mountains OF the Tell-ncyer
in the plains OF the Sahara. The robbcr tribes
OF the Iaurich frequent the soGth-fronter of Sa-
hara and the last tract Of habable land which
intervene between the Gases and the real Desert:
but, in the Sahara itself, communications carried
on after the fashion OF the country, are regular
and secure War is indeed OF freqGen; occur
renee between the neighborinr tribes, either for
the possession of disputed territories, or the re-
venge of supposed injuries but all that is vet
known of these singular communities shows
them to be living in completely constituted
state OF civil soclety-emincntly adapted to the
peculiar part of the globe which they nhabit-
governed by the strong traditions of prineval
people. and fulfilling with energy and intelli-
gence the strange yocationS6G their life The
population of the FIAT, or the most northern
tract of the Sahara, te n the 32d and 2Oth
parallels OF latitude, is more dense than that of
Tell, or any region near the coast, though even
there the Gases are often separated by two or
three days march over barren sand The kilar
is the sandy plain beyond, which produces q
scanty pasture after the winter rains and to
the south OF that region lies the Talat or sea of
sand, to be crossed, without danger and suffer-
ing, by none but the dromedary and Arab horse
man. The scdentary population of each of the
Gases of the Sahara centers i'll a town Of moro
less Importance, and devotes itself to the cul-
tivaton Of the palm and date, or to manufactures.
Around t'is town are assembled the dependent
ksonr or villages tthe tribes, some pastoral and
some mercantile, which are in continual motion.
and carry on what NAV bH termed the avtarnal
relations Of the community. All the corn con-
sumed in these villages and towns is grown in
the Tell. The date, which is the great edible
product of the Sahara, becomes unwholesome,
and even fatal to life, if eaten without proper
admxture of other food; so that the industry OF
one half Of the Inhabitants of the Sahara consists
in preparing commodities for the purposes of
trade, while the other half carries on this trade
to the distant markets of the north and of these,
no inconsidorabe number emerate to the coast
for long term of years.-Edinburg Rev