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Updated: September 10, 2025
Strabo mentions the oasis: "To the south of Atlas lies a vast desert of sand and stones, which, like the spotted skin of a panther, is here and there diversified by oases, or fertile grounds, like isles in the midst of the ocean." Ghadames a City of Marabouts. Every Accident of Life ascribed to Deity. Second Day's Feast, Swinging and Amusements of the People. Death of the Sultan of Timbuctoo.
I allowed my public a few moments to recover from the emotion produced by my experiment and the flight of the herculean Arab. One of the means employed by the Marabouts to gain influence in the eyes of the Arabs is by causing a belief in their invulnerability.
My different Appellations. Departure for, and arrival at, Rujban, native place of my Camel-driver. Aspect of The Mountains. Miserable condition of the Inhabitants. Cruelty of the Tribute Collectors. Marabouts exempt. Curiosity of the Women to see The Christian. Social Habits of the People. Politics in The Mountains. Visit from The Sheikh. Various Conversations and Visitors. Heat of the Weather.
It so happened that his great-grandfather thought three was a lucky number, and wished to become a Christian, whereupon God caused a troop of banditti to fall upon his caravan, who plundered him of everything, and reduced him again to beggary. Such are the tales of Marabouts of The Sahara, quite a match for the legends of our Monks of the good and happy olden times.
Silence reigned in the tent, beyond whose first division, screened by a heavy curtain of goat's hair, the beautiful young Djelma played with her only son, a child of three or four summers; the Sheik lay mute, the Djouad and Marabouts around never spoke in his presence unless their lord bade them, and the Chasseur was stretched motionless, his elbow resting on a cushion of Morocco fabric, and his eyes looking outward at the restless, changing movement of the firelit, starlit camp.
He would be taken ill with a strange disease, of which he would die after dreadful suffering; or at best his career would be ruined; for the greatest of all marabouts was a man of immense influence.
"No," he replied, "I am his master, you are a stranger, I must pay." Whilst we were talking, a letter came informing the Rais that some robbers had carried off six camels from the village of Seenawan. H. E. "Yes." I. "Is there any body in it?" H. E. "No." I. "How?" H. E. "This is a city of dervishes and marabouts people don't steal if they've nothing to eat they beg."
Indeed, I'm obliged to be school-master, and geographer, and admonisher, to Sheikhs, marabouts, merchants, to all and every body. The subject of religion was now introduced, and I found the Governor, though a Marabout, of the first water, did not know that the Christians read and studied the sacred books of the Jews.
Over there to the west, where vultures and marabouts and kites were holding a clamorous meeting; over there, where the ground was black with birds. The two wretches approaching the camping place rolled their eyes in terror, glancing over there. They had run for miles and hidden themselves in a donga.
However, four of our camels were in reality brought in; there yet remain out two of ours and three belonging to the Kailouees. However, our spirits begin now really to revive. We learn that this act of restitution is attributable to the marabouts. I went to bed on receiving this news; but I had not rested long before Dr. Barth called out, "Have you heard what has happened?
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