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National Geographic : 1974 Apr
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this will please and divert him, but to this bit of flattery he replies with a wan smile. I remove my sandal, I make a deep bare footprint in the sand. "See how my toes stick out straight for ward," I tease. "The toes of a Tuareg fan out, is it not so, because they pick up objects with their feet, and also they hold the necks of their camels between their first two toes when they ride?" This time I get a pained look, richly de served. I decide to try angering him. "Hamiada gave me a message for you," I say. "He said, 'When you see that man Mo- 566 hammed, you tell him he has a lot of things that do not belong to him.' " He replies with an unexpected roar of laughter. The intended insult is true: Much of his immense fortune came from ancient pillage. Arrant-and profitable-banditry against other tribes was long regarded as acceptable before the French put an end to it. In the best of humor, the old reprobate returns to the subject of the Land-Rover. "I want to slaughter a sheep for you and your children," he says. "In fact, I will kill one every day of your stay. But the flocks are far and you will have to drive me there." National Geographic,April 1974
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