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Algeria and Tunisia Algiers ancient Arab Arab eats Arabian horse architecture artist Batna beautiful Berber Biskra Blanche Blida Bou-Saada Boufarik burnous cafés Caid Cairo called camel caravan Cherchell chief Christian civilization coast colour comes Constantine couscous desert donkey drink El Kantara European facing fête Figuig France French gorge goum holy horse hundred indigène Islam Italian Jews Kabyle Kairouan Kantara Kasba kilometres Koran kouba Laghouat land live marabout Mauresque meat Mediterranean mehari ment Miliana military minaret Mohammed Mohammedan monument Moorish Moors Morocco mosque mountain mule Mussul Mussulman native negro nomad North Africa numbers oasis Oran perhaps picturesque population port prayer Prophet race railway religion road Roman Sahara savage sheep Sheik smoke soldier sous Spahis Tebessa tent thing thousand Timgad tion Tlemcen to-day tobacco tomb tourist town tribe Tunis Tunisia Turks village walls wine woman women Yusuf Ziban
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Page 161 - Around lie drifted sand-heaps upon which each puff of wind leaves its trace in solid waves, flayed rocks, the very skeletons of mountains, and hard, unbroken plains, over which he who rides is spurred by the idea that the bursting of a waterskin or the pricking of a camel's hoof would be a certain death of torture — a haggard land, infested with wild beasts and wilder men — a region whose very fountains murmur the warning words, "Drink and away!
Page 26 - Arab farmer seeks the sunny side of the wall and basks there, watching things grow, smoking much tobacco and drinking much coffee each of these narcotics very black and very strong. Four months later his ample, or meagre, crop comes by chance. Then he flays it, not by means of a flail swung by hand, but by borrowing a little donkey from some neighbor, — if he hasn't one of his own, — and letting the donkey's hoofs trample it out. Now he takes it — or most likely sends it — to market, and...
Page 311 - Every Jew, who within four-and-twenty hours after this proclamation, shall be found in the streets without a black beaver hat on his head, a green shawl round his neck, and red silk stockings on his legs, shall be immediately seized, and conveyed to the first court of our palace, to be there flogged to death.
Page 25 - Trade between Algeria and France, mostly in wines and food stuffs on one side, and manufactured products on the other, approximates three hundred millions of francs in each direction. Algeria, " la belle Algerie," as the French fondly call it, is not a mere strip of mountain land and desert. It is one of the richest agricultural lands on earth, running eastward from the Moroccan frontier well over into Tunisia ; and, for ages, it has been known as the granary of Europe. The Carthaginians and the...
Page 205 - ... boulevard which flanks the port and from the ships in the harbour. A stronger ray flashes from the headland lighthouse at Cap Matifou, and still others from war-ships in the great open gulf. Algiers is truly fairy-like from any point of view. The Algiers of to-day is a great and populous city. It is the Icosium of the Romans doubled, tripled, and quadrupled. Three towns in juxtaposition stretch from Saint-Eugene on the west to Mustapha on the east, while Algiers proper 246 has for its heart the...
Page 60 - Mediterranean shores ; and a variety of colour will come into the landscape of the fishermen's huts and the farmhouses which the artists of a former generation knew not of. Tunis is undergoing a great commercial development, and if the gold of Ophir is not some day found beneath its soil, many who have predicted its undeveloped riches will be surprised and disappointed. The railways of Tunisia are not at all adequate to the needs of the country, but they are growing rapidly. When the line is finally...
Page 44 - Souk-Ahras will be the distinct " foreign note " of the installation of its farming communities. Haystacks are plastered over with mud; carts are drawn by mules or horses hitched tandemwise, three, four or five on end, and the carts are mostly two-wheeled at that. There are no fences and no great barns for stocking fodder or sheltering cattle; the farmhouses are all of stone, bare or stucco-covered, and range in colour from sky-blue to pale pink and vivid yellow.
Page 55 - French officials, he has a far easier time of it even though he be a delinquent. He gets his deserts, but no vituperative punishments. One thing the Tunisian Arab may not do under French rule. He may not leave the Regence, even though he objects to living there. The French forbid this. They keep the indigenes at home for their country's good, instead of sending them away. It keeps a good balance of things...
Page 55 - Things have greatly improved in Tunisia since the French came into control. Formerly the native, or the outlander, had no appeal from the Beylicale rule short of being hanged if he didn't like his original sentence. To-day, with a mixed tribunal of Tunisian and French officials, he has a far easier time of it even though he be a delinquent.
Page 34 - States and Provinces, the Teuton has pushed his trading instincts to the utmost. He may be no sort of a colonizer himself, but he knows how to sell goods. In North Africa, in the coast towns, over a thousand German firms have established themselves within the last ten years, all the way from Tangier to Port Sai'd.