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360 Appendix II<br />

come across one of these awful beings, incarnate in the<br />

form of a jackal or serpent, or meet, in his own hideous<br />

shape, the appalling Nesnas, who is a man split in twoi<br />

with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg, and<br />

yet hops along with astonishing agility, and is said, when<br />

caught, to have been found very sweet-eating by the people<br />

of Hadramaut? To live among such fancies must have<br />

given a relish to life, even when one knew that one's destiny<br />

was inscribed in the sutures of the skull, and in spite of<br />

those ascetic souls who found consolation in staring at a<br />

blank wall until they saw the name of Allah blazing on it."

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