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Title : The gateway to the Sahara; observations and experiences in Tripoli
Year : 1909 ( 1900s )
Authors : Furlong, Charles Wellington, 1874-
Subjects : Tripoli (Libya) -- Description and travel
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library : University of California Libraries
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he loyally complied with hiscousins demands for horses, until his favoriteblack horse, his akawali, alone remained. Onemorning as Salam sat in the porch of Durbeeshouse, a giant negro arrived to take the akawaliand to summon Durbee before the Bashaw. *My master, said Salam, was not feelingsweet, and seizing his war spear said threaten-ingly, Take him if you can! Bur-r-ro! Go,tell my cousin a Bashaw does not go to a Bashaw,and my akawali stays with me. Tell him that be-fore the shadows of the date-palms have darkenedthe doorway of his house I will meet him to fight. That afternoon Durbee mounted his horse,took his shield and weapons, and went out alone.Some of us followed to the edge of the palmgrove, and as the appointed time drew near herode out in the open. There on the hot sands heawaited his enemy. The hour of the challengepassed, but the coward never came. Durbeekept his akawali, and before the annual fast ofRamadan gathered his retainers about him andsupplanted his cousin. (60)
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A Ilausa Bashaw There on the hot sands he awaited his enemy SALAM, A HAUSA SLAVE Shortly after this Durbee made a journey toSokoto to make his peace with the Sultan andleft Salam with a friend in a neighboring town.This man treacherously sold him for two thou-sand cowries ($25) in Kano, the great emporiumof Central Africa. Within its fifteen miles of mud walls, twenty toforty feet in height, swarms a mass of black andsun-tanned humanity. In the open markets cara-vans of Black traders from the Congo come in withtheir long lines of donkeys weighted down withivory, gold dust, and kola nuts, halting perhapsbeside a garfla all the way from Tripoli with Euro-pean goods and trinkets, or from the salt chotts ofTunisia and Asben,for salt is scarce in the Sudan. Here Arab merchants from the Mediterraneanand the Red Sea meet those from the Niger andthe Gulf of Guinea, and no small number of thetwo million nomads who pass through everyyear are Hausa pilgrims bound for Mecca. Thehadji ^ or pilgrim

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