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Depositing his sandals, Arab-fashion, outside the French head-quarters, he awaited the duke's signal to sit down. "I should have wished to do this sooner," said the broken chief, "but I have awaited the hour decreed by Allah. Louis Philippe could not come in contact with this pure spirit without an exhibition of Frankish treachery, like tinder illuminating its foulness at the striking of steel.
As we did so, the three Fung, splendid-looking, black-faced fellows, arrived at a furious gallop, their lances pointed at us. "Stand still, friends," said Maqueda; "they mean no harm." As the words passed her lips, the Fung pulled the horses to their haunches, Arab-fashion, lifted spears and saluted.
The people have no cattle, but say there are no tsetse flies: they have not been long here, i.e. under the present system; but a ruin on the northern peninsula or face of the entrance, built of stone and lime Arab-fashion, and others on the north-west, show that the place has been known and used of old.
Here, at the cemetery, the driving road abruptly ends; thenceforward there is merely a track along the sea that leads, ultimately, to Capo Nau, where stands a solitary column, last relic of the great temple of Hera. I sometimes follow it as far as certain wells that are sunk, Arab-fashion, into the sand, and dedicated to Saint Anne.
He was restless, and would not always be contented to ride El Biod, beside the tall, white mehari, but would gallop far ahead, and then race back to rejoin the little caravan, rushing straight at the animals as if he must collide with them, then, at the last instant, when Victoria's heart bounded, reining in his horse, so that El Biod's forefeet shod Arab-fashion pawed the air, and the animal sat upon his haunches, muscles straining and rippling under the creamlike skin.
The headmen salute their visitors Arab-fashion, with flourishes of the sword; but swording ends there. Of late they were attacked by the savages of the interior, Gallinas, Pannis, and Kúsús. The latter, meaning the 'wolves' or the 'wild boars, is the popular nickname of the Mendi or Mindi tribes, occupying the Sherbro-banks. Smith & Elder, London, 1874.
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