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The conquest by Turkish pirates about 1500 A.D., with subordination to the Sultan of Turkey till 1669, brought in very few Turks; the pirates were a mixture of various Mohammedan nations with renegades from the Christian nations. The "Moors" of to-day in Algeria are their descendants; the ancient Moors were Berbers.
36 18 Imbécile, va!: 'what a fool you are! Va! allez! and allons! For allons! cf. 56 1 Je te l'avais bien dit 'I told you so. 36 19 Eh bien ... l'Afrique!: 'well now, here's your Africa! On té see note to 13 7. La anticipates l'Afrique, cf. 32 5. 36 27 la Mecque: 'Mecca, in Arabia, the birthplace of Mohammed; the Holy City to which every good Mohammedan goes in pilgrimage at least once.
During the centuries of pirate rule, and earlier, negroes were brought in as slaves; Mohammedan custom favored setting them free in a few years if they became Mohammedans. 40 23 invraisemblables: lit. 'unlike the truth, 'improbable', then 'strange, 'outlandish', of German unwahrscheinlich.
Since the minaret is high and from the top the muezzin has a view of the roofs of the houses where the Mohammedan women spend a great deal of the time, blind men are sought for this office découpant ... dans: 'his white shadow standing out against. 63 6 chantant la gloire d'Allah: cf. note to 92 1. 63 chapter heading On ... Tarascon. 'our Tarascon correspondent writes us.
Read "Un Décoré du quinze août," referred to in note to 81 5 81 12 kousskouss au sucre: 'sweetened couscous' caïds 'caids, Mohammedan military chiefs. 81 13 un général Yusuf quelconque81.
41 12 Zanzibar: capital, since 1832, of the Mohammedan power in East Africa, and place of entry for travelers to Central Africa in the middle of the nineteenth century; hence here representing the idea of an African capital, as Constantinople that of a Turkish capital. 41 13 en plein Tarascon: cf. note to 5 7.
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