I Now Put Some Questions To The Hadji, But
He Looked At Me Askance With His Sullen Eye, Pouted With His Lip,
And Remained Silent; As Much As To Say, "Speak Not To Me, I Am
Holier Than Thou." I Found His Negroes, However, Far More
Conversable.
One of them was old and ugly, the other about twenty,
and as well looking as it is possible for a negro to be.
His
colour was perfect ebony, his features exceedingly well formed and
delicate, with the exception of the lips, which were too full. The
shape of his eyes was peculiar; they were rather oblong than round,
like those of an Egyptian figure. Their expression was thoughtful
and meditative. In every respect he differed from his companion,
even in colour, (though both were negroes,) and was evidently a
scion of some little known and superior race. As he sat beneath
the mast gazing at the sea, I thought he was misplaced, and that he
would have appeared to more advantage amidst boundless sands, and
beneath a date tree, and then he might have well represented a
Jhin. I asked him from whence he came, he replied that he was a
native of Fez, but that he had never known his parents. He had
been brought up, he added, in the family of his present master,
whom he had followed in the greater part of his travels, and with
whom he had thrice visited Mecca. I asked him if he liked being a
slave?
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