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Updated: May 2, 2025
Now bring up those Jews. Their Rabbis were with me two hours ago promising peace: and this is the way they have kept their promise. So be it. The wicked is snared in his own wickedness. The Jews were brought in, but kept a stubborn silence. 'Your holiness perceives, said some one, 'that they have each of them rings of green palm-bark on their right hand. 'A very dangerous sign!
The negroes are free, though they work for very small wages. Occasionally in the trip across the island we pass through a crude but picturesque hamlet, having the mouldering stamp of antiquity, with low straggling houses built of rude frames, covered at side and roof with palm-bark and leaves.
It was the Moolah who approached them with four splinters of palm-bark protruding from between his fingers. "He says that he who draws the longest has the camel," said Mansoor. "We must agree to abide absolutely by this," said Cochrane, and again his companions nodded. The Dervishes had formed a semicircle in front of them, with a fringe of the oscillating heads of the camels.
In the mountain regions in particular, it is a common occurrence for groups of youngsters, armed with reed spears and palm-bark shields, to carry on mock battles. They also learn to make traps and nets, and oftentimes they return to the village with a good catch of small birds.
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