Note 43 — Chapter VI · THE BAKKARA. (NOMADIC TRIBES.)
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The most prevalent means, in most Mooslem countries, of exciting what the Arabs term “Keyf,” which I cannot more nearly translate than by the word “exhilaration,” is tobacco, whose accompaniment is usually the cup of coffee.—Lane’s Modern Egyptians, vol. ii., ch. 2., p. 35-6.—Tr.