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Updated: September 27, 2025
The bearer of the flag dismounted, and at a sign planted it in the ground. Seeing his Shaykh, the Prince called him: "Who is the warrior yonder? He in the golden armor?" "He the Emir El Hajj! And so young? Oh! a hero of the Serail. The Kislar Aga extolled him one day." "Thy remark and common report, O excellent Prince, could not journey together on the same camel," said the Shaykh.
The Moors are very well known in Tunis, so many of them, passing through from Mekka on the Hajj, have been prevented from getting home by quarantine or lack of funds. There are several cafés where Morocco men are to be met with by the score. One feature of this cosmopolitan city is that there are distinct cafés for almost every nation represented here except the English.
This turn, this particular connection of Islam with Abraham, made it possible for him, by means of an adaptation of the biblical legends concerning Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael, to include in his religion a set of religious customs of the Meccans, especially the hajj.
The Hajj and his son treated me, like a spoilt child, to a double allowance of food and milk: they warned me that the small-pox was depopulating Harar, that the road swarmed with brigands, and that the Amir or prince was certain destruction, I contented myself with determining that both were true Oriental hyperbolists, and fell into more frequent fits of passion.
He afterwards went to Bombay, where he was treated with consideration; and about fifteen years ago he succeeded the Sayyid Mohammed el Barr as governor of Zayla and its dependencies, under the Ottoman Pasha in Western Arabia. The Hajj Sharmarkay in his youth was a man of Valour: he could not read or write; but he carried in battle four spears , and his sword-cut was recognisable.
One may not tell what calamities to body and soul would overtake the Emir El Hajj did he fail to deliver the mahmals according to consignment. While the cavalry came up the hill the musicians exerted themselves; at the top, the column turned and formed line left of the Emir, followed by strings of camels loaded with military properties, and a horde of camp-followers known as farrash.
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