Village in the Western Sudan, 1796
Panoramic view of Kamalia, showing architecture of houses and layout of compounds; also people engaged in various activities. Kamalia, a small town . . . where the inhabitants collect gold in considerable quantities. The Bushreens [Muslims] here live apart from the Kafirs [pagans], and have built their huts in a scattered manner, at a short distance from the town . . . . I was conducted to the house of a Bushreen . . . [who] was collecting a coffle of slaves . . . to sell them to the Europeans on the Gambia (Park, pp. 252-53). The engraving was taken from a drawing that was based on a sketch made by Park.
Image Title
Village in the Western Sudan, 1796
RegID
SI-OB-665
Date
1796
Title
Village in the Western Sudan, 1796
Source
Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa . . . in the years 1795, 1796, 1797 (London, 1799), facing p. 252. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Savanna
Reproduced In
Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa . . . in the years 1795, 1796, 1797 (London, 1799), facing p. 252
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
mungo-1