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Updated: May 19, 2025
We dismounted at Dis'hass, where, we were told by Ammar, 'the English once had houses. It was a mass of ruins. We went over a pass about 2,500 feet high, and up and down two sets of hills to a level plain about 1,500 feet high, extending all the way to Ras Momi.
A dhow had arrived from Bombay with no letter for us, but with news of the plague: so we became afraid that if the plague prevented the steamer from coming and we waited for it, we might have to stick on Sokotra during the whole of the south-west monsoon. My husband therefore began parleying about sailing-boats and had sent Ammar from Adahan, and the sultan had sent his captain up to meet us. Dr.
He was familiar with all the languages spoken in the island, and daily, when the camp was all pitched and arranged, my husband used to produce a long list of Arabic words, and Ammar used to sit on his heels and tell the Mahri and Sokoteri equivalents, the words, however, being for the most part shouted out in chorus by numerous bystanders.
I have since added the English, and the vocabulary will be found in an appendix. It was most difficult to get an answer as to anything abstract. For instance, 'clothes' would be asked, and Ammar, after inquiring if white clothes were meant, or blue, or black, or red, and being answered 'any clothes, would give a list of garments of various shapes.
At Tamarida we annexed a respectable man called Ammar as interpreter.
We returned to the camp at Mzez Ammar; a few days afterwards we were attacked by the Arabs, who showed great spirit and determination in their desultory mode of warfare, which, however, can make no impression on such troops as the French. The attack was continued for three days, when they decamped as suddenly as they had come. But this cannot be very interesting to you, monsieur.
'My age, said Ammar, 'mine well' with evident annoyance and great hesitation 'I'm thirty-five not old not old at all. He is really quite fifty. On such occasions there had to be a tremendous conversation with the bystanders. I will not say more of the language than that instead of our little word I the Sokoteri is hemukomòn and the Mahri evomúhshom.
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