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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  The Washington Post: Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history

• “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

• “After three years thus spent, by no means unfruitfully, though it was only by his prize poem of 'Timbuctoo' that he won public honours, he was called away from Cambridge by family troubles and returned to Somersby in February 1831.”

  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

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