berka's

Updated: May 9, 2025

Although their houses are full of stores and money, they will still beg, and beg, and beg . . . . beg . . . beg. . . But this evening, at Haj Ibrahim's, we had a transcendant specimen of begging. The beggar was no less a personage than The Giant. I may remind the reader, The Giant is the son of Berka's sister, and is head of the tribe at Berka's death.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846