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Hodh, or Taganet, or Kidal*, that are fed upon cooling 
milk. 
66 1 am secure in my position.")* He who attempts to con- 
tend with me will be cut off, overwhelmed. I rely on Allah, 
the Lord of Moses, and Jesus, and the Prophets, that I may 
see myself contented. He aids the solitary and deserted 
with His help, so that He overwhelms the multitude al- 
together. Lo ! Pharaoh was very wicked and very mighty : 
he lost his way in the sea, and the host were laid low. 
" Oh, Masina ! reprove your brother, that he may become 
a submissive friend to me, like the Imam Bello ; or that he 
may be to me as both his parents were before : if they did 
not suffer, they did not fear. Or, let him leave me alone 
with his evil, and I will leave him alone. The best of evil is 
that it should not manifest itself. 
" Behold ! the learned and the humane among you, the A'l 
Fodiye { ; they do not adopt a chief ; they do not adopt any 
but one who is wise about the way of the Most High, and who 
sees and hears. They respect the honourable, because they are 
themselves such. They do not associate with the ignoble : they 
only consort with those that are saints, learned, poets, pious, 
abstemious. Repair the evil ye have done our neighbour ; 
and preserve affection for us, preserve for us unfailing grati- 
tude and inviolate brotherhood. If ye were willing, like them, 
ye should be in it, and would earn both fame and benefits. 
But nature is queen. If cowards only could, they certainly 
would be brave." 
* Three districts celebrated for their breed of horses. Kidal 
lies between Mabrtik and the country of the Awelimmiden, — H. B. 
f Literally, "My fat is in my wallet." Freitag, " Arab. Prov." 
i. p. 664. 
J The poet here exhibits to the hostile ruler of Masina the do- 
cile behaviour of his friends, the rulers of Sokoto, the successors 
of the Sheikh Fodiye. — H. B. 
