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Meet Angelo, who conducts me to his Master, the British Vice-Consul. Hearty Welcome from Mr. Gagliuffi. Detail of the Slave-Caravans of The Wady. Read the Newspapers; Massacre of Jemâ-el-Ghazouat, and the Annexation of Texas. Visit to the Bashaw of Mourzuk. Visits to the Commandant of the Garrison and the Kady. Poetical Scrap of European Antiquity. Celebration of a Wedding. Environs of Mourzuk.
The butcher ran through the town to the seashore, and thence to the house of the Kady the boys still in hot and breathless pursuit, hard after him, pelting him and the bleeding sheep.
They complain that, whilst he brings as many goods as twenty ordinary merchants, he gives less than any one. So we must hear both sides of the question. Saw to-day the Moorish Kady of Ghat for the first time: I had not made his acquaintance. His son I knew, who was very impertinent, insisting that I should give him some tea because he was the son of the Kady.
Observed many of the men had their eyelids blackened, like the women, with Kohel , and also their finger-nails and toe-nails dyed dark-red with henna . I confessed I was surprised at this monstrous effeminacy. One of these lady-gentlemen was the son of the powerful Ettanee family; he was brought up to the Church, and of great promise, bidding fair to be future Kady or Archbishop.
In these palm-booths, or huts, the Moors occasionally bring their provisions, and here they will pass night and day for weeks together in dreamy drunken musings, each sot, shut up in himself, making himself by a drunken and delirious imagination, Kady, or Sheikh, or Sultan, or some mighty warrior, and all mankind his slaves and ardent worshippers, as the bent of mind wildly leads him.
It is well to observe, the Saharan people always speak of scorpions as not stinging but striking a man, the verb used being ضرب, "to beat," "to strike." On the liberation of a slave, this is signed by the Kady, in the presence of two witnesses. A freed slave has it generally about him. But after he is known, and has resided long in one place, it is no longer thought of.
I told you my business was about the mate here, and you said you were Kady yourself. Whether you are or not I don't know, and I don't vastly care, but anyway, I paid for justice in hard money, and you said you'd give up the mate. You didn't do that.
A European merchant interfered, and saved the Jew from the bastinado he so richly deserved. A Kady hearing of these abominations, took upon himself to begin a reform, and went about examining weights.
Some of the houses in these villages have two stories, and are well built; each place has its mosque, its school, its kady, and its sheikh, and the whole agglomeration of oases is governed by a Sheikh Kebir, appointed by the Sultan of Morocco. These Saharan villages are eternally in strife with one another, and sometimes take up arms.
Then he said to him, "Stand there," pointing to the middle of the floor, and seated himself on the divan in the attitude of a judge. "Now, Mr. Rad el Moussa, I advise you to understand what's going to be said to you now, so that it'll be a lesson to you in the future. "I came to you, not very long ago, asking for your card to the Kady.
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