variant of SAHARA.
1732. Barbot, Desc. North and South-Guinea, Suppl. II. 534/1. The inhabitants are lean, tho’ the air of Zahara is so wholesome, that the people of Barbary carry their sick thither to recover their health, and the natives are not subject to diseases.
1819. Rees, Cycl., XXXI. An extensive country of Africa, justly styled Zahara.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, II. xii. To her as desolate as if they had gone over her head in the shadowless and trackless wastes of Zahara, instead of in the blooming garden of an English home.
