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Updated: May 8, 2025
This feeling was not lessened by my reception at the funduk, whose native manager sternly refused to give me that separate sleeping-room which, I had been assured, was awaiting me and which, as he truthfully informed me, was even then unoccupied. The prospect of passing the night with a crowd of Arabs was not pleasing. Amiability being unavailing, I tried bribery, but found him adamantine.
If it had been the Tripolitans, we would have acted just the same; we cannot be bothered with decisions of civil courts, which would have satisfied nobody, besides depriving us, probably, of a number of good workmen. There was a little outcry about this, too: that none of the wounded were treated in our hospital, but carried down to the native funduk near the station.
Take your damned tirlils to your damned funduk, and be off! clear out! comprenni?" And he looked so very angry that the Arab, a prudent fellow, walked backwards out of the room, more surprised and grieved than ever. Thanks to the disinterested and strenuous exertions of a Jewish international lawyer, the affair was settled out of court after all fifteen hundred francs, plus expenses of transport.
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