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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. .he has learned all the vices of the European . . . and has slippedthe good points of the Arab. The rural Arabs are thoroughly ignorant, superstitious, andsuspicious when they come into town, knowing that the Jews,most of the Europeans, and the town Arabs are all on the lookoutto take him in. He is hard-working and tills in his garden or fieldwith his family, coming into town on market day to sell his prod-uce and buy his little supplies. The world over the paysan is the natural preyof the sophisticated and unscrupulous urbanite.But the methods by which these leeches extracttheir ill-gotten pelf is as varied as the conditionsunder which it must be obtained. Watch that Arab yonder; the one who has justturned in by the camel market with his flock ofsheep. He soon stops and huddles them all in abunch about him. It is early yet and he refusesthe low offers proffered by several passers-by. * Bis salamah! On thy peace, uncle pilgrim,and a keen-visaged Moor greets him with theTemenah. (46)
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O O B i I S o Zh =* OUTSIDE THE WALLS Gedash! (how much) has been offered thee forthy flock? Four medjidies ($3.52) a sheep. What dog of an unbeliever has offered theprice of his own skin to one of the Faithful ?Thy sheep are fat and of good kind and by Allahare worth double, but hold, givest me one percent, if I sell for twice that which is offered thee ?Well said! Come then to yonder fonduk at theedge of the Suk and we will there place thy flockfor safety. The Moor draws from his leathernmoney bag a few paras and pays for the stabling,the fonduk keeper naturally supposing him to bethe owner. Now, said the leech, let us take one sheepand go back to the Suk with it. Then throughthe crowd they pick their way, the leech carryingthe sheep across his shoulder. Hold, brother, may Allah lengthen thy age.Stay thou hei:e with this sheep, while I seek acustomer. Tired of waiting, and with growing suspicionthe man from the wadan (country) at last hurriesback to the fonduk, only to find that the

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