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330 TRAVELS INAFRICA.in some countrÎes a griddJe) over embers, hoôèj and .dates, COmposetheÏr ordinaryfood, save when a beast dies a natural death;or iher c'anshoot an antelope, whieh- animàl, ineonsideration .with itshabits,isnumerous here,but very slly from natura! dispositiôl!andits manyenemIes. Caution however must give way to neeessity, and if tomesto the wells at dawn of day to drink; and then the Arabs occasionallyshoot one. They have a way oftaking out thecarcas~~~tire,t.brqughanincision of not more than a few iuches lou.git~\·'th~~~i;~/3~(thebelly. These people have a.lwaysa bowl which,thewomeu present to sucb as visit tbeireamps,anoffering to. the manes ofhospitality. Theyhowever deign to accept reimbursement*. The menaremost dexterous thieves, and on the wateb for politieal concussion,on whieh event they immediately break out iuto open warfare withwhatever of a eompensatory n~ture cornes within t~€1ir reaeb. Saadi'Homed has them, however, now in great subjeetio ll , Still, notwithstanding,taxation and declaration of war are.~ith·them syniIlYmpuSterms; and the following is the fiscal~y~'~em 9ftheempire, to w~ich thispeople eontributes so considerably,of.the col...lection. Taxes are paid in kind, and are one-tenthof grain onetwentiethof cattle, besides fines leviedon districts where havebeen committed, and the guilty not produced for.justice.Perhapssomething is to be said in extenuation .of the procedurehere~ whereasin nations presuming upon a greater civilisation, and stiJl recurIing toit,it is left without excuse.It ls a faet that frequently oecurs, that anArab seeing a stranger wandering from his escortwill c.ali tqt~e latter"to warn the person they have in charge;andthis the Arab docs. from anapprehension that his fellows might, by sorne act of uilgovernable atr€>-'* The savages in America are extremely hospitable, without even the smallest idet\' of reimburse.ment.