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THE EVIL EYE MORALITY. 
The Sfaxee pledges his word of honour that there 
was a female slave a year ago in Mourzuk who 
killed five of her companions with her looks. On 
this a council was held by the merchants and great 
people of Mourzuk, to know what to do with her, 
and the decision come to was — to send her back to 
Bornou : a happy decision for the poor slave ! 
Lucky for her that she was not born in some parts 
of Europe, with her marvellous power. Even our 
friend Gagliuffi has not escaped these superstitions 
of the people among whom he lives. On my see- 
ing his young turkeys for the first time, in very con- 
siderable numbers, I exclaimed, " What a host of 
young turkeys you have got !" On this he became 
quite alarmed, lest I had cast a malign look upon 
them, and ejaculated a counter-exclamation, " Oh, 
God bless them !" 
The Sfaxee and Yusuf do not speak very fa- 
vourably of some parts of Soudan as to morality. 
In some districts of Begarmi, Yusuf says, a male 
takes the first female he meets with, no matter how 
near the relationship. All the women, in fact, are 
in common. We must receive his asseverations for 
what they are worth, on this subject in general, and 
on the developements into which he entered. Ac- 
cording to him, in those regions where scarcely any 
other roof is required but the heavens, there is no 
other couch spread than the earth, and no one shuns, 
in any act of life, the eyes of his neighbours. 
Whilst these wonders of witches and tales of 
