Have a drink with me, and let me tell you something." -- --------------- * Imshi (Arabic), get to hell out of here! ** Voetsak (Cape Dutch), ditto.
*** Enenda zako (Kiswahill), ditto.
**** Kuma nina (Kiswahill).

An opprobrious, and perhaps the commonest expletive In the language, amounting to a request for details of the objurgee's female ancestry.

By no means for use in drawing-rooms.
-- ---------------- He was tall, dark skinned, athletic, and roguish-looking even for the brand of Greek one meets with south of the Levant--dressed in khaki, with an American cowboy hat--his fingers nearly black with cigarette juice--his hands unusually horny for that climate--and his hair clipped so short that it showed the bumps of avarice and other things, said to reside below the hat-band to the rear.

Yet a plausible, companionable-seeming man.

And Zanzibar confers democratic privilege, as well as fevers; impartiality hovers in the atmosphere as well as smells, and we neither of us dreamed of hesitating, but followed him back into the bar--a wide, low-ceilinged room whose beams were two feet thick of blackened, polished hard wood.