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Updated: October 14, 2024
Having once learnt her vanity, I never passed her without saying 'Gubbah Tekkul! 'Beautiful hair! at which she would beam and toss her head. At sunrise came again the wailing; the singing of the Goohnai, or dirge, wherein are enumerated all the multiplex totems of the deceased, crooned in a wailing way, and each fresh person who comes to the camp sings this dirge again.
Here was a small dome-topped chapel, called Sidi Farhat, in which are laid the ashes of a saint. We had seen many such in the hills; indeed these gubbah abound all over Barbary, and are placed more frequently on elevations. We noticed particularly the 300 Turkish infantry; they were irregulars with a vengeance, though regulars compared to the Arabs.
I only womba mad all yowee spirits in me tell me gubbah good I lib 'long a youee; bimeby I come back big feller wirreenun; wahl you frightened? I not hurt you. And after crooning an accompaniment to her steps off she went, a strange enough figure, dancing and crooning as she went towards her camp; and not until the spirits gave up possession of her did she come near the house again.
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