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English: Original caption: "Vue d'une partie de la ville de Temboctou, prise du sommet d'une colline, à l'Est-Nord-Est." Timbuktu looking west. Caillié had visited Timbuktu is 1828. Three mosques are depicted. In the foreground is the Sidi Yahia Mosque. On the right hand side is the Sankoré Mosque. In the middle distance is the Grand Mosque (Djingareyber Mosque).
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Source Caillié, René (1830), Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique Centrale: précédé d'observations faites chez les Maures Braknas, les Nalous et d'autres peuples; pendant les années 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, Volume 2, Paris: Imprimerie Royale. Plate 6 between pages 310 and 311. Downloaded from
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 The BNF gives the engraver as Louis François Couché (1782-1842).
Author René Caillié (1799-1838)

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