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On telling a Ghadamsee I ate some Thob, he said, "Ah, that's forbidden; the Thob was formerly a human being, before it had its present shape. Don't you see its hands are still human?" The notion of the transmigration of souls lingers in these parts, but it is a doctrine not generally received. I observed this man afterwards fattening his sheep with date-stones, broken into small pieces.
"Nor I," lisped Baby Blake, following suit, in order to keep up her reputation for sentimentality; "I would thob my eyth out!" "See," quoted the curate, grandiloquently, "how `one touch of nature makes the whole world kin!"
The Grand Factions of Ghadames, the Ben Weleed and the Ben Wezeet. Interest of the People in Algerian Affairs. Names, from Bodily Deformities. Starving Slaves makes them Thieves. Disease of the Arak-el-Abeed. Finances of Ghadames. The Prophet Jonah, still living. Bad system of collecting Taxes by common Soldiers. Essnousee leaves for Ghat, alone. The Thob. Stroke of the Moon.
I tasted of this which I bought, and liked it. There is no lizard of this species in Soudan. A Touarick told me that, having found one in The Desert, he carried it to Soudan, where a Negro prince fell in love with it, and gave him for it the present of a young female slave. The Arabs tame the Thob, and he grows very fond. Some of them are very large.
The traditions of the Mohammedans mention that Mahomet did not himself eat the Thob, at the same time he did not prohibit it to his followers. The Saharan merchants, in traversing The Desert, frequently make a good meal of the Thob. Whilst talking of the Thob, the people said the flesh of parrots was poison for Ben-Adam. 25th.
Free and enlightened America may have yet to learn lessons of freedom and humanity from the savages of The Sahara! Purchased a Thob , a species of large lizard. It is common in The Sahara. The Touaricks eat them, and say they are medicine for a pain or weakness in the back.
Besides the Wadan and the Thob, Saharan people eat many animals which hungry Europeans might eat, amongst the rest rats and mice, when in good condition. But the mouse is the large mouse of The Sahara. The Rais had a live Wadan which died just before my arrival. He regretted much as he would have given it to me. His Excellency promises to get me one.
There is also the term عرق, "decayed flesh or bone." يونس, Ἰωνας. Esaias is changed in the same way. الضب, Thob monitor: probably, monitor pulchra. كحل, Kohel, "powder of lead," name derived from the epithet "black." حنّا, Henna, "Lawsonia alba," Law. It is the Ovis Tragelaphus of Zoologists. I was fellow-passenger from Mogador with the male oudad, now at the Royal Zoological Gardens.
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