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  • The 'Fouta' or towel Amar wears nothing but in the Turkish hammam!

    iToot Stream 2010

  • Fouta, Al-Hadji by name, declaring himself to be inspired like

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • Thierno Kane, Federation de associations du Fouta le developpement, BP 3865, Dakar

    Chapter 11 1993

  • They complained that he had not employed sufficient severity against some unfortunate persons who had not been able to pay their debts; and they exclaimed against some miserable speculations which he had made in the country of Fouta

    Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

  • Fouta pursued Amursana with the energy of one who has to gain his spurs, and he almost succeeded in effecting his capture, but Amursana just made his escape in time across the frontier into Russian territory.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • He, therefore, sent his best lieutenant, Fouta, to pursue the Eleuth prince.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • Sarimsak had as a child escaped from the pursuit of Fouta and the massacre of his relations by the chief of Badakshan, but he was content to remain a pensioner at Khokand to the end of his days, and he left the assertion of what he considered his rights to his children.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • They crossed the frontier in two bodies, one under the command of Tchaohoei, the other under that of Fouta.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • Alikouen, instead of to Fouta, the hero of the Central Asian war, who had fallen under the emperor's grave displeasure for what, after all, appears to have been a trifling offense.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • Chinese demanded of their neighbors that his body should be surrendered they refused, on the ground that enmity should cease with death; but Fouta was able to report to his sovereign that he had seen with his own eyes the mortal remains of the Eleuth chief who had first been the humble friend and then the bitter foe of the Manchu ruler.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

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