[95] It is the same with the route from Timbuctoo to Arbate.

[96] Impatience to arrive, and above all, the imperious necessity of reaching the wells, sufficiently account for these long journeys through the desert.

[97] Recherches sur l’Afrique septentrionale, &c., page 266.

[98] After all deductions.

[99] Or from 24 to 26, on account of a ten hours’ march of two miles and six-tenths an hour.

[100] The learned M. Eyriès in his Geographical Observations on the discoveries of M. Mollien, confines the day’s journey to five leagues, or twelve geographical miles; this estimate applies only to certain cases, for example the long extended journeys of pedestrians, but not to the days’ journeys of ordinary caravans.

[101] Carte générale des Etats du Nord de l’Afrique, &c.

[102] The data and calculations exhibited above, being the basis upon which I have reduced the itinerary map and used it for the general map, it is superfluous here to explain more at length the necessary differences between the two; but I have considered it equally my duty to give the first without modification, that is to say constructed solely upon the estimate of the journeys. I shall here give the general result of M. Caillié’s days’ journeys, which, as a whole, deserve attention for their continuity and extent.

JOURNEYSNumber of days of actual travel.Number of hours of travel.Estimated number of English miles.Number of hours journey daily.Estimated number of English miles.Number of geographical miles.
per hour.per day.per hour.per day.
From Kakondy to Timé48176½529¼3,7311,02,149,43
„ Timé to Galia621484442,437,22,146,17
„ Galia to Timbuctoo by water26262524102201,4317,2
„ Timbuctoo to Fez6763012609,3218,81,4316,1
„ Fez to Arbate4459011,2222,51,4319,3
Totals2071261½2849¼„„„„„
Progress of caravans heavily laden, bythe hour in geographical miles: from 1⁹⁄₂₀ to 1½
„ moderately laden, by the hour in ditto. .from 2to ³⁄₂₀

[103] See Chapter 3.