Vulgar words in Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 (Page 1)

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It is demanded from bastard Arabs, and from tribes who, like the Hutaym and the Khalawiyah, have been born basely or have become “nidering.” And these people are obliged to pay it at home as well as abroad.

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The camel’s colt with falt’ring tread, The dog that bays at all but me, Delight me more than ambling mules— Than every art of minstrelsy; And any cousin, poor but free, Might take me, fatted ass!

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[FN#26] The British reader will be shocked to hear that by the term “fatted ass” the intellectual lady alluded to her husband.

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Maysunah departed with her son Yazid, and did not return to Damascus till the “fatted ass” had joined his forefathers.

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[FN#20] Pliny is certainly right about this useful quadruped and its congeners, the zebra and the wild ass, in describing it as “animal frigoris maxime impatiens.” It degenerates in cold regions, unless, as in Afghanistan and Barbary, there be a long, hot, and dry summer.

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[FN#2] Omar Effendi was to wait at Meccah till his father had started, in command of the Dromedary Caravan, when he would privily take ass, join me at the port, and return to his beloved Cairo.

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I was still hesitating about my next voyage, not wishing to coast the Red Sea in this season without a companion, when one morning Omar Effendi appeared at the door, weary, and dragging after him an ass more weary than himself.

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The hire of an ass varies from one to three riyals.

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The ‘Victim of killing Game.’ If the animal slain be one for which the tame equivalents be procurable (a camel for an ostrich, a cow for a wild ass or cow, and a goat for a gazelle), the pilgrim should sacrifice it, or distribute its value, or purchase with it grain for the poor, or fast one day for each ‘Mudd’ measure.

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The best monture is a camel, because preferred by the Prophet; an ass is not commendable; a man should not walk if he can afford to ride; and the palanquin or litter is, according to some doctors, limited to invalids.

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She was “very faire and comely, after theyr maner, and of colour inclynyng to blacke:” she [p.336] would spend the whole day in beholding Bartema, who wandered about simulating madness,[FN#5] and “in the meane season, divers tymes, sent him secretly muche good meate by her maydens.” He seems to have played his part to some purpose, under the colour of madness, converting a “great fatt shepe” to Mohammedanism, killing an ass because he refused to be a proselyte, and, finally, he “handeled a Jewe so euyll that he had almost killed hym.” After sundry adventures and a trip to Sanaa, he started for Persia with the Indian fleet, in which, by means of fair promises, he had made friendship with a certain captain.

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Butler alludes to it :— “Th’ apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet’s, were ass and widgeon;” the latter word being probably a clerical error for pigeon.

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