Kabara, Mali
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Kabara is a small town in Mali on the Niger River, the port for Timbuktu. It is 8 km to the south of Timbuktu and is connected to an arm of the Niger River by a 3 km canal. The town has at times in th
Kabara by Heinrich Barth (1853)
"In the camp before Kabara." (Emin Pasha expedition, before 1891)
René Caillié
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Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was mur
Kabara, Mali
…was not allowed to continue up the channel to Timbuktu. Gordon Laing reached Timbuktu in 1826, but was killed by Tuareg when he tried to leave. In 1828 René Caillié was the first European to visit the city and return alive. Heinrich Barth visited Kabara in 1853. The canal was so shallow that his boat's passengers…
Portrait by Amélie Legrand de Saint-Aubin
Postcard by Edmond Fortier showing the house where Caillié stayed in Timbuktu as it appeared in 1905–06
Dressed in Arab clothing