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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.
The Arabs, in their hatred of the Touaricks, say, "The scorpion and the Touarick are the only enemies you meet with in The Sahara." 16th. The old worn-out bandit met me, and asked me to cure his rheumatic pains. "Show me your tongue," I said. He flatly refused, as several persons were present. Then when I went away he came running after me, and tried to put out his tongue, but did not succeed.
The Touarick women industriously weave the woollen tobes, jibbahs, or frocks; they are very cheap, warm, and comfortable in the water. But the Soudan cottons are the great Saharan consumption. There are also now introduced from Europe quantities of, I think, what are called "Indians" in mercantile slang, or coarse white cottons.
Visit from Aheer and Soudanese Merchants, and present state of Soudan. Form of the Cross on Touarick Arms. Boy taught to curse The Christian. Medina Shereef's opinion on my giving Presents. A Negress begs in the name of Ouweek. Visit to the Governor and Hateetah. Streams of Water and Corn-Fields in the Fabled Region of Saharan Desolation. Kandarka will recommend me to his Sultan.
In deserts and mountains we find always the free-men: in soft and luxurious countries we find the slaves. It is not the free-born Touarick who is the slave-dealer, or the stimulator of the slave-traffic, but the Moorish merchant, and the voluptuary on the coast who sends him.
They were very nice, made of butter, and honey, and dates, and lasted me all the way to Ghat. Makouran pressed the Rais to write for me to the Touarick authorities of Ghat; but his Excellency could not without an order from Tripoli. I am under very great obligations to the Sheikh, who behaved like a father to me in a land of strangers.
Those particular beads made of a composition of clay at Venice and Trieste, are now the fashion. The Touarick ladies prefer pieces of coral and charms strung round their neck in necklaces. The arms, wrists, and ancles are hooped with wood-painted, and generally, metal armlets, bracelets, and anclets. Some ladies hang a small looking-glass about their necks, which is, of course in frequent use.
Parallel Customs between The East and The Sahara. The mercenary Blood-letter. Indifference to the sufferings of the Arab Troops. Colour of the people in Paradise. Excellent Government of the Fullanee Nations. Moors do not fondle their Children. Administering Physic to Camels. Simplicity of Touarick manners. Knocked down by a Pinch of Snuff. Departure of the Tibboo alone to Ghat.
He is a native of Touat, but has been settled here twenty years, where he has built himself a palace and planted large gardens. He is a shrewd and politic man, and has, in a certain degree, those jealous feelings of Christians which are peculiar to the Moor. He dresses partly in the Moorish and partly in the Touarick style, indeed, like all the Moors of Ghat, who are called Ghateen.
I have given a case of Touarghee justice. During the Ghat Souk, all the Sheikhs assemble in the great square, the Shelly, for the arrangement of disputes; but it is mere form, and is more for gossiping and quizzing one another, the Touarick being fond of a good joke.
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