[80]Barth, op. cit., Vol. I. p. 477.
[81]According to Barth, op. cit., Vol. I. p. 451; but the minaret was built in 1847, according to the Agades Chronicle (Journal of the African Society, July 1910).
[82]This is the one to which Chudeau (Missions au Sahara, Vol. II, Le Sahara Soudanais, p. 64) refers as 980 years old according to tradition, presumably basing himself on the same information as Jean, op. cit., p. 86. The date is improbable, as Agades was not founded at that time.
[83]Cf. Leo Africanus, Vol. III. Bk. VII. p. 829: “The king of this citie hath alwaies a noble garde about him.” Cf. [Plate 11.]
[84]Leo Africanus, Vol. III. Bk. VII. p. 829.
[85]Denham and Clapperton, Vol. II. p. 397.
[86]The same procedure is indicated in the Agades Chronicle, which also states that the Kel Owi give him an ox (Journal of the African Society, loc. cit.)
[87]Barth, op. cit., Vol. I. p. 422.
[88]Jean, op. cit., p. 89.
[89]Isuf or Yusuf according to Jean, who is certainly wrong in this respect. Op. cit., p. 89. Chudeau, op. cit., p. 70, gives his name as Yunis, as did my informants in Air.