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Two beautiful antelopes, light as air, bounded by me with amazing agility, and were lost in a moment amongst the shrubs and mounds of the desert plain. I fell to musing on natural history, and accounted for these gazelles by the presence of the well. I then recollected the Targhee hunter. For an instant I forgot my situation. But where was I? What was I doing?
Indeed, the word Targhee seems to have the same signification as Kabyle, that is, "tribe," or "nation," both words denoting people of the same original stock. 5th. The morning of our departure! . . . . . At length comes the end the end of all things, joys or sorrows even in The Desert, where delay and procrastination are the dull and wearying gods of ceaseless worship.
Said's apprehensions of Touaricks. Hateetah's opinion of stopping Saharan Slave-Dealing. Shafou leaves Ghat. Discussion of Politics with an assemblage of Chiefs. Description of the Touarick Tribes and Nations of The Great Desert. Description of Aheer and Aghadez. Leo's Account of the Targhee Desert. Daughters of the Governor Educated. Touaricks refuse aid from the Turks against the Shânbah.
Their proper name is Tanelkum, a genuine Tuarick word, and decisive of their Targhee origin. Their trade is chiefly camel-driving between Ghât and Fezzan. They are a fairer and finer race than the Fezzanees, and do not intermarry with them.
I do not doubt the correctness of this news; it is so perfectly Targhee in its kind: but the report of sixty maharees pursuing us from the Haghar desert was always doubted by me.
I greatly perspired with the labour of the ascent, and now caught a cold, and had a bilious attack, the only time I was seriously unwell during my nine months in The Desert, and strange enough that it should be occasioned by cold. Our party consisted of myself and Said, the Targhee guide, and Mustapha, the Tripoline Moor, who was going to purchase provisions, and borrow money at Mourzuk.
Ghat Townsmen great Bigots. Unexpected Meeting with the Sultan. My Targhee Friend's opinion of War. Mode of Baking Bread. Country of Touat. The British Consul is perplexed at his Master being a Lady. Vulgar error of Christians ill-treating Mussulmans in Europe. People teach the Slaves to call me Infidel. Visit to Bel Kasem, and find Khanouhen. The free-thinking of this Prince.
Hateetah seldom spoke to me of religion, but to-day the Consul said, "What sort of Christian are you? The Author. "And what sort of Islamites are you Touaricks? for you are many, as many as we." The Consul. I asked then the Consul what was the meaning of Targhee, who replied En-nas, or "people."
I have seen several of these watch towers in the oases of Sahara. "And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him." The mention of "a very great heap," in the words cited, evidently denotes the royal rank of the deceased. 25th. My young Targhee called today as usual. Asked him abruptly, "What he did? What was his occupation?
One day, in the Targhee's absence, he took his gun to "play at powder," and using English material, succeeded in splitting the machine near the lock. When the Targhee returned, and found what damage had been done, he began first to whimper, and then working himself up into a towering passion, swore he would shoot the culprit. Scarcely with that weapon, O Targhee!
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