Documentary Narration \Veiled Sahara\
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a network of caravan routes brought European goods into the heart of Africa. Centuries before Europeans themselves set foot in the continent, cloth and luxury goods traveled southward across the Sahara. So did salt, an essential element in the human diet, which is found in the desert. But it's scarce in the tropics to the south, from south to north, past gold, leather goods and kola nuts, a mild narcotic valued in Muslim countries where alcohol was forbidden as a barrier. The desert was like a wild and unpredictable ocean desert caravans with ships that sailed this ocean, the market towns of North Africa and the Sudan it belt in the south were the ports, and the dreaded black veiled Tory tribesmen were the pirates. The hazards of the crossing were extreme. Caravans could cover 200 miles and weak. But if the wells in Oasis failed, men and beasts would perish. European cloth and manufactured goods reached the North African coast and were carried inland by donkeys in desert ports, such a sigil masa and get Thomas here. The goods were loaded onto camels for a journey of nearly 1000 miles southward across the Sahara