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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] ^^Awjila tribe whose language is most closely related to the Siwa of Egypt. https://flic.kr/p/cENu7 https://flic.kr/p/cENy6 https://flic.kr/p/cENBE https://flic.kr/p/cENv7 https://flic.kr/p/cENRj https://flic.kr/p/cEN3g https://flic.kr/p/cEMK9 Libyans as described by European Explorer George Francis Lyon (1795-1832): [i] Morzouk is a walled town, containing about 2500 inhabitants, [b]who are blacks[b], and who do [/b]not, like the Arabs, change their residence.[/b] . . . The town has seven gates, four of which are built up in order to prevent the people escaping when they are required to pay their duties. A man is appointed by the Sultan to attend each of these gates, day and night, lest any slaves or merchandize should be smuggled into the town. . . . Many palms grow in the town. . . . The street of entrance is a broad space of at least a hundred yards, leading to the wall that surrounds the castle, and is extremely pretty: here the horsemen have full scope to display their abilities when they skirmish before the Sultan. The castle itself is an immense mud building, rising to the height of eighty or ninety feet, with little battlements on the walls (a fancy of the present Sultan’s); and at a distance looks warlike. Like all the other buildings, it has no pretensions to regularity: the lower walls are fifty or sixty feet in thickness; the upper taper off to about four or five feet. In consequence of the immense mass of wall, the apartments are very small, and few in number. The rooms occupied by the Sultan are of the best quality, (that is to say, comparatively), for the walls are tolerably smooth, and white-washed, and have ornamental daubs of red paint in blotches, by way of effect. His couch is spread on the ground, and his visitors squat down on the sandy floor at a respectful distance; we, however, were always honoured by having a corner of the carpet offered to us. [/i] [IMG]http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1244210&t=w[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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