Once more we have to call on the deep and profound wisdom of our Readers. In a recent article in Time, there was a review of a book titled Skeletons of the Zahara. [Readers of course know that “Zahara” is an alternate spelling of “Sahara”.] The book is about a shipwrecked captain, James Riley, whose brig was shipwrecked and with his crew, and all were “taken as slaves by the Boo Shaa, a tribe of nomadic arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine.” We wished to call this curious sentence to your attention – since drinking any camel urine is surprising – but first, we checked out the name of the tribe on Google. Well, there is simply no Google reference to the Boo Shaa, nor one to the Bou Shaa, nor the Boo Shia. We also went to that well-known [to you] web site www.learnassyrian.com, where there was no help to be found, either. So, we task you, erudite Readers, with checking this out. Otherwise, we'll have to buy the book.

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