Hubshi

It had to learn the difference between a Somali and a _Hubshi_ at any cost -- the cost of Moussa's life included.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

"He called _me_, Moussa Isa of the Somali, a _Hubshi! _"

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

That would be Africa or Arabia, and Moussa Isa would be where a Somal is known from a _Hubshi_ ....

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

Untouchable, looked down upon the African, the Black Man, the Nigger, the Cannibal, the _Hubshi_, sent from Africa to defile their Reformatory and destroy their caste.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

Here, in benighted, ignorant, savage India, the Dark Continent indeed, men knew not what a Somali was, likened him to a Negro, ranked him lower than a Hindu even -- called him a _Hubshi_ in insolent ignorance.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

A Somali, mark you, not a mere _Hubshi_ or Woolly One, not a common Nigger, not a low and despicable person -- worshipping idols, eating human flesh, grubs, roots and bark -- the "black ivory" of Arabs.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

African, concerning whom Colonel Ross-Ellison had advised the servants of the Officers 'Mess to be careful and also to bear in mind that he was not a _Hubshi_.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

"He called me _Hubshi_, and I will kill him," replied Moussa.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

In Aden, men knew a Somali from a _Hubshi_ as surely as they knew an

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

Somali_ was the out-cast of out-casts, the pariah of pariahs, prohibited from touching the untouchables, one of a class depressed below the depressed classes -- in short a _Hubshi!

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913