Vulgar words in Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 (Page 1)

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ass x 7
bastard x 1
chump x 2
knocked up x 8
            

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The Sheikh's ass is the only animal of the beast-of-burden sort in the whole caravan, besides the camels.

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As I expected, Said is knocked up and lamed.

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The merchants were much amused at the quarrel, and thought me an ass to quarrel about _a slave_, (for such they esteemed Said) having a ride[18].

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Some few observed I was right, and bullied Mohammed, who now made another lying excuse, that his two camels were knocked up, which was the reason Said didn't ride.

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He abused the Sultan of Constantinople and called him an ass for spending his money like a fool, and this license before all the people!

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who, mounting upon an ass, will scour the earth in three days, and kill and destroy all the Mussulmans, this Dajal being the Messiah of the Jews, who will all flock to his standard; and that then will appear Jesus, _the Son of Mary_[46], from the top of the mountains of the moon, after Dajal has reigned forty years, and slay this monster Messiah of the Jews.

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Our people fell in with the skeleton of a Touarick ass, and amused themselves with setting it up upon its legs, as if in the pillory.

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The barbarians, as their civilized brethren, seek in this way also a bastard immortality for their names.

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End of the Sandy Region.--No Birds of Prey in The Sahara.--Progress of the French in the Algerian Oases.--Slave Trade of The Desert supported by European Merchants.--Desolations of Sahara.--System of Living of our People.--Various Tours through Central Africa.--The Desert tenanted by harmless and Domesticated Animals.--Horribly dreary Day's March.--A Fall from my Camel.--Well of Nijberten, and its delicious Water.--Moral Character of the People of our Caravan.--Well of Tăbăbothteen.--Camel knocked up and killed.--Mode of Killing Camels.--Pretty Aspect of The Sahara.--Some of the Ghafalah go on before the rest.--The Plain and Well of Tadoghseen.--Encounter and Adventure with the _quasi_ Bandit Sheik, Ouweek.--Enter the region of the _Jenoun_ or Genii.--Mountain Range of Wareerat.

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A camel knocked up to-day, and unloaded this morning.

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"Oh, he's an ass," replied Bel-Kasem.

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I cut several, and amused and satirized myself by writing in my journal with one quill, "James Richardson has much to learn;" with another quill, "Richardson, James, must take care of his health," &c., "Yâkob Richardson was an egregious ass to come into The Desert," &c., &c. These quills are very firm, if not fine and flexible, and it is a good substitute in The Desert for "the grey goose quill."

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It is, perhaps, for the better, for we are all knocked up.

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The poor slaves knocked up to-day; rested many times on the road, and another very ill.

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Wood, apparently chumps of the tholh.

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It is here they're knocked up, going continually and most patiently to the last moment of their strength, when they expire at once.

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I was extremely knocked up and unwell, and at once determined not to leave Mourzuk until my health should be restored.

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Our road is strewn with chumps of petrified wood.

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