THE TOMB OF A MARABOUT 



In Northern Africa the term Marabout has a very wide meaning. It is applied to every man 

 in any way devotes himself to religion, from dignified and influential scholars of holy lite— j 

 esteemed as saints— to wandering mendicants who subsist on alms or by the sale of spells, charr 

 other objects of pious superstition. 



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