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Updated: May 20, 2025
"It is worse than to eat pig by daylight in Ramadan would seem to an Egyptian." "Do you dislike the English?" "What must I say?" "Say the truth." "If it is the English ladies, I think them lovely." "And the Englishmen?" "Oh, they are all good fellers." He threw into the last two words an indescribable sound of half-laughing contempt. "They are all good fellers. Don't you think so?"
In this land they stayed; and even now far up the Nile you will hear of the Two Strange People who travelled the river even to Dongola and some way back only some way back, for a long time. In particular you will hear of them from an old dragoman called Mahommed Ramadan Saggara, and a white-haired jeweller of Assiout, called Abdul Huseyn.
We were hopeful for days that it was only a temporary disaster, and that we would eventually get her filled up, shoes and all. But days became weeks and weeks gathered themselves into months. Each morning Rosa came up winsome and glad to be alive fresh as the dew on the currant bushes and ravenous as a Mohammedan at the end of Ramadan. It was no use.
I make the tour of the Oasis. Visit to the Souk. Prejudices against me diminish. First sight of Birds. A young Taleb's specimen of Writing. My Turjeman's House. The Negro Dervish. Touarick Camel Races. A few Drops of Rain. Various Visits, Conversations, &c., about Timbuctoo. Prevalent Diseases, and my Medicine Chest. Evening previous to the Ramadan. Houses, Public Buildings, and Streets.
One hundred Arabs, and four hundred Africans, passed over, in four vessels, from Tangier or Ceuta: the place of their descent on the opposite shore of the strait is marked by the name of Tarif their chief; and the date of this memorable event is fixed to the month of Ramadan, of the ninety-first year of the Hegira, to the month of July, seven hundred and forty-eight years from the Spanish æra of Cæsar, seven hundred and ten after the birth of Christ.
The words sounded like a defiance flung at the two Catholics, and for a moment Domini thought that Father Roubier was going to treat them as a challenge, for he lifted his head and there was a flash of sudden fire in his eyes. But he only said, turning to the Count: "I think Mademoiselle and I shall find our little Ramadan a very easy business.
To-day, I find more people in the streets, and the Ramadan is not so visible in their faces as I expected it would be. The fact is, the generality of the Saharan inhabitants, and especially the poor Arabs eat but once, or make but one meal a day, and this in the evening; so, in reality, as far as eating is concerned, the Ramadan is no Ramadan with them. Saw the Rais, he is better than yesterday.
They profess the Mahometan religion, but I believe there is not a mosque in the whole island: We were among them during the fast, which the Turks call Ramadan, which they seemed to keep with great rigour, for not one of them would touch a morsel of victuals, or even chew their betel, till sun-set.
Thereafter he slew his victims in thankful and devout spirit, and the Greater Pilgrimage was completed. In token he shaved his head, pared his nails, and removed the pilgrim's robe; then, coming before the people, he exhorted them further, enjoining upon them the strict observance of daily prayers, the fast of Ramadan, the rites of Pilgrimage, and all the essential ceremonial of the Muslim faith.
To this redoubted personage, now apparently verging on eighty, Mr Paton was introduced by M. Petronevich at an evening audience, it being contrary to etiquette to receive visits by day during the Ramadan and found him "sitting in the corner of the divan at his ease, being afflicted with gout, in the old ample Turkish costume.
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