l-i-c-e

Updated: August 9, 2026

I attribute my escape to my being an infidel, for their orthodox l-i-c-e won't have anything to do with Kafers. People look worse than during the Ramadan. Poor creatures, they have little to eat; they say they have nothing but barley-meal and dates to eat, for the Turks have taken away all their money.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846