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Updated: May 21, 2025
The use of different terms is very curious in travelling through North Africa, and each country has its peculiar Arabic word, the words being all more or less classical. Perhaps no word is so much used in Ghadames and The Mountains as the epithet batel باطل "vain, useless," &c., and really answers in its use to something like our tremendous "Humbug."
After we come to satire, and with the help of the word batel, "good-for-nothing," we manage to hit off somebody. An Arab Sheikh came to us, one day, when we were joking. I said, "Oh! here's the lion-heart, who ran away from Emjessem for fear of the Shânbah-Bātel." "Nor have we here," replied a merchant, "you better go and hunt with the greyhounds of the Touaricks.
I begin to think the nues from the sutherd is tru of ginrol Lintons having a batel and comming of the leator it is said he killed 200 hundred and took 500 hundred what makes me creudit it is becaus the acounts in the New york papers peartly agree with ours my beast Respeacts to your Lady and sistors and Litel soon. I am dear sir with the greatest respects your most obed and humbel Sarvant
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