hubshi

Updated: May 31, 2025

A Somali, mark you, not a mere Hubshi or Woolly One, not a common Nigger, not a low and despicable person worshipping idols, eating human flesh, grubs, roots and bark the "black ivory" of Arabs. If you called Moussa Isa a Hubshi, he either killed you or marked you down for death, according to circumstances.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

Wherever he went on foot, especially when he slipped out of the Prison for dangerous spy-work among the forces of the mutineers, rebels, rioters and budmashes of the city, he was followed by his servant, an African, concerning whom Colonel Ross-Ellison had advised the servants of the Officers' Mess to be careful and also to bear in mind that he was not a Hubshi.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

Bind him tightly. And at that, the treacherous, murderous dog found his manhood for a moment and made to spring to his feet and fight, but as he tried to rise, Moussa Isa kicked him in the face and fell upon him. "'Shall I serve thee as I served thy Hubshi hireling, thy Sidi slave? he grunted and showed his sharp strong teeth.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

In Aden, men knew a Somali from a Hubshi as surely as they knew an Emir from a mere Englishman. Here, in benighted, ignorant, savage India, the Dark Continent indeed, men knew not what a Somali was, likened him to a Negro, ranked him lower than a Hindu even called him a Hubshi in insolent ignorance. If only the beautiful Reformatory were in Berbera, and tenanted by Africans.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

How or when their name became changed from Wahuma to Watusi no one is able to explain; but, again deducing the past from the present, we cannot help suspecting that, in the same way as this change has taken place, the name Galla may have been changed from Hubshi, and Wahuma from Gallas.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

It was borne in upon the clever young man that the Hubshi looked at his neck, below his ear, when he smiled that dreadful smile. Sometimes a significant gesture accompanied the meaning smile.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

All Africans were black niggers and every soul in the place, from Brahmin to Untouchable, looked down upon the African, the Black Man, the Nigger, the Cannibal, the Hubshi, sent from Africa to defile their Reformatory and destroy their caste.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

Almeida, hoping to be able to close the severed jugular from which welled an appalling stream of blood. "It is quite useless, Sahib," observed Moussa, "nor can a doctor help. When one has got it there, he may give his spear to his son and turn his face to the wall. That dog will never say 'Hubshi' to a Somal again." "Catch hold of that boy," said Mr.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

He would have become a Pillar of the Order of Knighthood and an Ornament of the Age of Chivalry. A wreath of laurels would have encircled his brow instead of a rope of hemp encircling his neck. Autres jours autres moeurs. How many people called him Hubshi, we know not; but we know, from his own lips, of the killing of some few.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

As he set his foot upon the lowest of these, a hand fell upon the neck of the man who had been led, and a voice hissed: "Salaam! O Ibrahim the Weeper! Salaam! A 'Hubshi' would speak with thee...." and another hand joined the first, encircling his throat.... "Art thou dead, Dog?" snarled Moussa Isa, five minutes later.... It had gone.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life