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    Halima And The Scorpions 1905
    Halima And The Scorpions 1905
    Halima And The Scorpions 1905
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    Halima And The Scorpions 1905

    By Robert Smythe Hichens

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Halima And The Scorpions 1905 - Robert Smythe Hichens

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      Title: Halima And The Scorpions

             1905

      Author: Robert Hichens

      Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23414]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HALIMA AND THE SCORPIONS ***

      Produced by David Widger

      HALIMA AND THE SCORPIONS

      By Robert Hichens

      Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers

      Copyright, 1905

      In travelling about the world one collects a number of those trifles of all sorts, usually named curiosities, many of them worthless if it were not for the memories they recall. The other day I was clearing out a bureau before going abroad, and in one of the drawers I came across a hedgehog's foot, set in silver, and hung upon a tarnished silver chain. I picked it up in the Sahara, and here is its history.

      Mohammed El Aïd Ben Ali Tidjani, marabout of Tamacine, is a great man in the Sahara Desert. His reputation for piety reaches as far as Tunis and Algiers, to the north of Africa, and to the uttermost parts of the Southern Desert, even to the land of the Touaregs. He dwells in a sacred village of dried mud and brick, surrounded by a high wall, pierced with loopholes, and ornamented with gates made of palm wood, and covered with sheets of iron. In his mansion, above the entrance of which is written L'Entrée de Sidi Laïd, are clocks innumerable, musical boxes, tables, chairs, sofas, and even framed photographs. Negro servants bow before him, wives, brothers, children, and obsequious hangers-on of various nationalities, black, bronze, and café au lait in colour, offer him perpetual incense. Rich worshippers of the Prophet and the Prophet's priests send him presents from afar; camels laden with barley, donkeys

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