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Updated: April 21, 2025
Encamped during the Kailah قايلة, or from 10 o'clock A.M., to 3 P.M. This is the siesta of the Spaniards, and it is probable the Moors introduced it into Spain. It is also the mezzogiorno of the Italians and the Frank population of Barbary. But the Italians usually dine before they take their midday nap. Our object here is to shelter ourselves from the greatest force of the heat of the day.
Leo Africanus, gives the subjoined account of Ghadames: GADEMES, ABITAZIONE. Gademes è una grande abitazione, dove sono molti castelli e popolosi casali, discosti dal mare Mediterraneo, verso mezzogiorno, circa a trecento miglia.
"Ecco, signore!" cried the fellow, snatching the watch from my waistcoat pocket, and putting one black thumb-nail on the long hand, the other on he numeral twelve. "Mezzogiorno poco tempo poco tempo!" And again I seized his meaning, that it was twenty past eleven, and we must be there by twelve. But where, but where?
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