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This is a little dark street appropriated for the rendezvous of the slaves in my part of the city, where they enjoy the cool of the evening and chat together. I squatted down to chat amongst them, which awakened their curiosity. "Who's that naked boy there?" They. "The Touaricks brought him from Bornou." "What are they going to do with him?" They.
He added, "If you go to Aheer hereafter I will assist you all I can." Mr. Gagliuffi pretends the Bashaw has considerable influence amongst all the Touarghee tribes, and the Touaricks always follow strictly the recommendations which the Bashaw, as governor of the province of Fezzan, and a near neighbour, has taken upon himself to give them.
These Arabs are really more greedy and rapacious than the Touaricks. The difference is, the Arabs are near Tripoli, see Europeans, and learn to be more polite to us than the Touaricks can well be. A son of the Governor recited to me the following famous distich, begging me to tell him what it meant: "Tummora, tummora, tera, Buon giorno, buona sera."
The Shereef's ideas of the Touaricks are not so favourable as those of his uncle, the Governor of Ghat, and in some respects they are more correct. The Shereef says: "The Touaricks are not of the Arabian race. Their language is a Berber dialect.
"The Touaricks will send him to Tripoli, and sell him; will you buy him?" "No, no; if I buy him, my sultan will put me in prison." "The English had many slaves, but gave them all the âtka; and soon, please God, they will destroy slavery in all the world." They. I found some were from Soudan, others from Timbuctoo, the greater part from Bornou.
This is a nasty trick to say the least, but as the Moorish auctioneer observed, "Such is the way with the Touaricks." However, I am persuaded neither Jabour, nor Khanouhen, would have stooped to such a shabby dirty manœuvre. It seems besides, Haj Ibrahim is giving great provocation to the chiefs who are appointed his protectors at the Souk.
He replied, "I am trying my utmost to improve the city, and want the Bashaw to whitewash the Castle. He has promised me he will do it." The Bashaw addressed me, "Think yourself lucky you have escaped, but for the future you must be placed in the hands of the Touaricks by us as a sacred deposit, and then if anything wrong happens we shall demand you of all the Touaricks by force."
I pushed the little scoundrels down stairs into the street. I could not however help remarking upon their audacity, and the early infant habits of Touarghee "begging by force." The Ghadamsee people have always been the fair game of the Touaricks. Asking one day a Ghadamsee, "What occupation the Touaricks followed?" he replied indignantly, "Beg, beg, beg, this is their trade!
What became of the Touaricks is not yet known. They are probably massacred. I made the acquaintance of these luckless Touaricks, and gave them some medicine to take to Touat. In this foray the Shânbah killed a little child of three years old. When they struck down a man, they ripped open his belly and left him. How strange it is they are Arabs!
Mode of Fashionable Dressing of the Hair, and Female Adornment. Saharan Beauties. Costume of Touaricks. Gardens of the Governor. Attempt a Journey to Wareerat Range. Hateetah and Haj Ibrahim become reconciled. Departure of Kandarka for Aheer. Day of my departure from Ghat. Moral and Social Condition of the Saharan People compared to European Society. Force of our Slave Caravan.
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