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... already waiting for him at the entrance of the desert. His new friend delighted in pomp and show, and he and his attendants entered Sockna attired in magnificent costumes, their chief himself riding a beautiful Tunisian horse, the saddle and housing richly adorned with scarlet cloth and gold. This African caravan merchant united the character of a warlike chief and trader, his followers being trained not only to fight in defence of his property, but to attack towns and carry off the hapless inhabitants as slaves. ...

— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

... spring of 1881 the first serious step was taken to threaten the independence or quasi-independence of Tunis. This development was the more serious because an important dispute was in progress concerning a Tunisian estate called the Enfida, to which rival claims were put forward by M. Levy, a British subject, and by a French company, the Societe Marseillaise. On January 12th M. Levy's representative, himself also a British subject, was expelled from ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... "Of these the Story of the Sleeper Awakened is the only one which has been traced to an Arabic original and is found in the Breslau edition of the complete work, printed by Dr. Habicht from a MS. of Tunisian origin, apparently of much later date than the other known copies.....Galland himself cautions us that the Stories of Zeyn Alasnam and Codadad do not belong to the Thousand and One Nights and were published (how he does not explain) without his authority." p. 264. "It is possible ...

— Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp • John Payne

Words linked to "Tunisian" : Tunis, Republic of Tunisia, Tunisia, African, Tunisian dirham