His grave was beneath a clump of mimosas that shaded the spot, and formed the most prominent object in the foreground of our landscape.

Thither every Friday the women of the village congregated, with offerings of a few handfuls of dhurra in small gourd-shells, which they laid upon the grave, while they ATE THE HOLY EARTH in small pinches, which they scraped like rabbits, from a hole they had burrowed toward the venerated corpse.

This hole was about two feet deep from continual scratching, and must have been very near the Faky.
Although thus reverent in their worship, the Arab's religion is a sort of adjustable one.

The wild boar, for instance, is invariably eaten by the Arab hunters, although in direct opposition to the rules of the Koran.

I once asked them what their Faky would say if he were aware of such a transgression.