"Cadis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there are no books, save the Koran; and the language is such a mixture of tongues, and is so corrupted, as to hardly have a distinctive existence. The people obey the local sheikhs (pronounced sh[a]k); above them are the cadis, who control provinces; and still higher, are the pashas, who are accountable ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou |
