Vulgar words in Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 - Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government (Page 1)
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The poor women were beginning to knock up, and several fell at times from mere exhaustion.
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Our marabout, comparing this place with El-Wady, for which we are now journeying, says, "Edree is like a jackass; El-Wady is like a camel!"
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To avert the evil eye from the gardens, the people put up the head of an ass, or some portion of the bones of that animal.
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The same superstition prevails in all the oases that stud the north of Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, but the people are unwilling to explain what especial virtue there exists in an ass's skull.
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The Tuaricks had another knocked up, and we two,--that of the blacks and one which I had purchased of Mr. Gagliuffi.
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It was the first to knock up.
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She brought forth a male child, and loved him and reared him; so that in process of time he took a wife, and from this union sprung the bastard race of Kailouees.