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Tebezza.Location of a gold mine mined by the prisoners at the penal colony there. Location Kazim<br />

orders Fairweather to take. He later orders the team taken there <strong>and</strong> imprisoned. The French engineers<br />

who built Fort Foureau, along <strong>with</strong> their families, are also imprisoned there.<br />

Telit.Town in northern Africa that sends out searchers looking for Mannock.<br />

Texas.Confederate Navy ship. Built at the Rocketts Naval Yard in Richmond. Specially constructed<br />

for a single voyage, she is one of the finest ships in the Confederate Navy. A twin-screw (propeller), twin<br />

engined vessel one hundred ninety feet in length <strong>with</strong> a forty-foot beam that draws only eleven feet of<br />

water. Her sloping twelve-foot-high casemates are angled inward at thirty degrees <strong>and</strong> covered <strong>with</strong> six<br />

inches of iron plate backed by twelve inches of cotton compressed by twenty inches of oak <strong>and</strong> pine.<br />

Iron shutters can be closed over her gunports. Mounted <strong>with</strong> four guns, two one-hundred-pound Blakely<br />

rifled guns mounted fore <strong>and</strong> aft on pivots <strong>and</strong> two sixty-four 413 pound guns covering port <strong>and</strong><br />

starboard. Her machinery is br<strong>and</strong> new <strong>with</strong> the boilers lying below waterline. She has twin nine-foot<br />

screws that can push her through the water at fourteen knots. Leaves the pier in Richmond on April 2,<br />

1865. Journeys to Africa <strong>with</strong> the Confederate Treasury <strong>and</strong> Lincoln aboard. Later runs aground in a<br />

river in the desert <strong>and</strong> is lost to time. Later discovered by <strong>Pitt</strong>, Giordino <strong>and</strong> Perlmutter. Removed from<br />

the, Malian desert <strong>and</strong> transported back to the United States. Now on display at the Washington Mall.<br />

Her crew was buried in the Confederate Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.<br />

Timbuktu.Fabled city in Mali that was to be the Across the Sahara Safari's next stop after Asselar.<br />

Togo.Country in Africa.<br />

Tombs, Comm<strong>and</strong>er Mason.Confederate naval officer in charge of the Texas. Described as<br />

ambitious <strong>and</strong> energetic <strong>and</strong> one of the finest naval officers in the Confederacy. He is a short, h<strong>and</strong>some<br />

man <strong>with</strong> brown hair <strong>and</strong> eyebrows, a thick red beard <strong>and</strong> a flinty look in his olive-black eyes. He<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>ed small gunboats at the battles of New Orleans <strong>and</strong> Memphis. He was gunnery officer aboard<br />

the famous Arkansas <strong>and</strong> first officer on the infamous raiaer Florida.<br />

Tougouri, Ahmed.President of the Republic of Benin.<br />

Trans-Sahara Motor Track.Road that leads through the Sahara Desert.<br />

Traore, Lieutenant Moussa.Army officer who removed Mali's first president in a coup. Was then

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