Vulgar words in First Footsteps in East Africa (Page 1)
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I found him an admirable buffoon, skilful in filling pipes and smoking them; _au reste_, an individual of "many words and little work," infinite intrigue, cowardice, cupidity, and endowed with a truly evil tongue.
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The Somali ass is generally speaking a miserable animal.
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The Somal unhesitatingly stigmatize them as a bastard and ignoble race: a noted genealogist once informed me, that they were little better than Midgans or serviles.
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Our baggage was again decimated: the greater part was left with Adan, and an ass carried only what was absolutely necessary,--a change of clothes, a book or two, a few biscuits, ammunition, and a little tobacco.
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The soil on both sides of the path is rich and red: masses of plantains, limes, and pomegranates denote the gardens, which are defended by a bleached cow's skull, stuck upon a short stick [33] and between them are plantations of coffee, bastard saffron, and the graceful Kat.
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In the Saharah, according to Richardson, the skull of an ass averts the evil eye from gardens.
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The principal exports from Harar are slaves, ivory, coffee, tobacco, Wars (safflower or bastard saffron), Tobes and woven cottons, mules, holcus, wheat, "Karanji," a kind of bread used by travellers, ghee, honey, gums (principally mastic and myrrh), and finally sheep's fat and tallows of all sorts.
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[34] "If you want a brother (in arms)," says the Eastern proverb, "buy a Nubian, if you would be rich, an Abyssinian, and if you require an ass, a Sawahili (negro)."
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[41] In Harar a horse or a mule is never lost, whereas an ass straying from home is rarely seen again.
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A Somali was despatched to the city under orders to load an ass with onions, tobacco, spices, wooden platters, and Karanji [2], which our penniless condition had prevented our purchasing.
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The slaves are now beginning to be much knocked up, many of them during the last march were obliged to be put upon camels.