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Updated: June 13, 2025
"'I did not say that.... Though, really, I am very much pleased, I assure you. "'Prove it to me: let us spend the day together tomorrow. "'To-morrow! I stammered. 'Impossible! "'Why? she demanded suspiciously. "'Because to-morrow, I have to pilot the Tuareg mission about Paris. The Emperor's orders. "'What bluff is this? asked Clémentine.
I proposed to the Faculté des Lettres at Paris this title for my thesis: Joan of Arc and the Tuareg. This simple announcement gave rise to a perfect outcry in learned circles, a furor of ridicule. My friends warned me discreetly. I refused to believe them.
"I should be curious," he went on with rather forced gaiety, "to meet these spirits and substantiate the facts of Pomponius Mela who knew them and locates them, in fact, in the mountain of the Tuareg. He calls them Egipans, Blemyens, Gamphasantes, Satyrs.... 'The Gamphasantes, he says, 'are naked.
He called it the 'central Mazycian range, You know there is no longer any doubt as to the identification of the Mazyces of Herodotus with the people of Imoschaoch, the Tuareg. But the manuscript of Denys unquestionably identifies the historical Mazyces with the Atlantides of the supposed legend.
In all hardly eight kilometers additional in a trip of about seven hundred leagues, with the certainty of making as complete an examination as possible of the roads which our enemies, the Senoussis of Tibesti and the Tuareg of the Ahaggar, must follow to arrive at Touat.
With a gesture, he indicated the black mountain. "They are afraid. All the Tuareg of Ahaggar are afraid of the Mountain of the Evil Spirits. You saw how they were up and off at the very mention of its name." "It is to the Mountain of the Evil Spirits that you are taking us?" queried Morhange. "Yes," replied the Targa, "that is where the inscriptions are that I told you about."
I recognized acquaintances among those present; my masseur, the manicure, the barber, and two or three Tuareg who had lowered their veils and were gravely smoking long pipes. While waiting for something better, all were plunged in the delights of a card game that looked like "rams." Two of Antinea's beautiful ladies in waiting, Aguida and Sydya, were among the number.
The garments usually worn by a Tuareg man consist of white trousers, a gray tunic with white sleeves, sandals of ornamented leather, and a white turban. When away from home the Tuareg covers the lower half of the face by a cloth mask. The usual occupation of the Tuaregs is twofold to guard caravans or to rob them. The average Tuareg is perfectly indifferent as to which he does.
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