Part 57

Delim, the male ostrich.

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The odour of musk remains where the ghezal has passed.

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Mahari, a riding camel.

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Maha, a species of white wild doe.

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A thick silver pin used by women to fasten their haïk, a long piece of woollen, stuff with which they robe themselves. In the desert this pin is called khelala.

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A small piece of polished wood, with which women smear on their eyelids the kohol, or antimony, they value so highly.

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A kind of seat, more or less ornamented according to the means of each individual, which is placed on camel's backs for the use of women who are going on a journey. Temag are red morocco boots.

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Many Arabs in battle load their pieces with seven balls or deer-shot; but their fire-arms are generally in such bad condition that this practice becomes the source of innumerable accidents. The number of persons maimed by guns bursting in their hands is very considerable.

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"Dash on at full speed." The metaphor is taken from the act of swimming.

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A salt soil that yields nothing but salt.

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Layahh, he who amuses, or distracts the attention.

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In some of the desert tribes a robber taken in the act is covered from head to foot with alfa (mat-weed), to which they set fire, and the poor wretch rushes away, amid general hooting, to die a little way off.

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The Beni-Mezab form, in the midst of the populations of the desert, a small nation by themselves, distinguished by the severity of their manners, a peculiar dialect, honesty that has passed into a proverb, and certain differences in their religious ceremonies.

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The Arab pride is here revealed in its full force. The produce of our horses, our camels, and our sheep, say they, exempts us from the necessity of working, and yet we can procure without difficulty all that these miserable Christians manufacture with so much labour.

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