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Examples of the total absence of pigment occur in all races, but particularly is it interesting when seen in negroes who are found absolutely white but preserving all the characteristics of their race, as, for instance, the kinky, woolly hair, flattened nose, thick lips, etc. Rene Claille, in his "Voyage a Tombouctou," says that he saw a white infant, the offspring of a negro and negress.
If that happened, the only way of communication would be by heliograph; and Sabine says that from Touggourt to Tombouctou this chain of towers has been arranged always on elevations, so that signals can be seen across great stretches of desert; and inside the walls of a bordj whenever possible, for defence.
Domini fancied his voice echoing along the sands till the worshippers of Allah and of his Prophet heard it like a clarion in Tombouctou. When she reached the great hotel the sun was just beginning to set. She drew Count Anteoni's card from her glove and rang the bell. After a long interval a magnificent man, with the features of an Arab but a skin almost as black as a negro, opened the door.
"Madame is brave as the panther in the forests of the Djurdjurah." "And you, Batouch? Aren't you brave?" "Madame, I am afraid of nothing." He did not say it boastfully, like Hadj, but calmly, almost loftily. "Well, we are neither of us afraid. Let us ride out on the Tombouctou road and see the moon rise. I'll go and put on my habit." "Madame should take her revolver." "Of course.
He sees them going towards the south." Domini leaned forward on the divan, looking at Count Anteoni above the bent body of the Diviner. "By what route?" she whispered. "By the route which the natives call the road to Tombouctou." "But it is my journey!"
She rode with him on three occasions, twice in the oasis through the brown villages, once out into the desert on the caravan road that Batouch had told her led at last to Tombouctou. They did not travel far along it, but Domini knew at once that this route held more fascination for her than the route to Sidi-Zerzour. There was far more sand in this region of the desert.
An angry look came into Millie Deans's eyes, and when the last drum throb died away and the little girl of Tombouctou slept for ever in the sand, slain by her Prince of Darkness, for a reason that seemed absurdly inadequate to the British composer who was a prop of the provincial festivals, but quite adequate to almost every woman in the room, her mouth set in a hardness that was almost menacing.
After mentioning Ghana as the principal Mahometan city of Nigritia, spoken of by Edrisi, he says that many of the Fatimites, who escaped from the power of the Califs, took refuge in the interior of Africa, where they formed various states. He then proceeds as follows: "Tombut ou Tombouctou, est actuellement entre les villes de la Nigritie, celle dont on parle davantage.
Mrs. Shiffney got up and begged Ferdinand to sing again, mentioning several songs by name. He shook his head, letting his apparently boneless and square-nailed hands stray about over the piano all the time she was speaking to him. "Non, non! Ce soir non! Impossible!" "Then sing Petite Fille de Tombouctou!" she exclaimed at last.
Evidently the Count was not a professing Catholic. Doubtless, like many modern Italians, he was a free-thinker in matters of religion. "I am afraid I have never heard of him," she said. "In which direction does Beni-Hassan lie?" "To go there one takes the caravan route that the natives call the route to Tombouctou." An eager look came into her face. "My road!" she said. "Yours?"
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