Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of French Africa |
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Abd-el-Kader acres Africa Algeria Algiers amongst amounted ancient Arabs army Arzeu Bab-azoun Barbary Baron Baude basins Berber Berbrugger Blidah Blofeld Bona Borrer Bugia built called Cape Carthage Casbah Castellane centre chain chasseurs chief Christian coast colonists colony command Constantina contains desert distance district Djebel douar east European feet France French Guelma hectares hills horses houses inhabitants Janissaries Jugurtha Kabyles Kabylia kilometres land latter leagues Little Atlas marabout Marie Mascara Mauritania Medeah metres miles Milianah military Mitidja Moorish Morocco mosque Mostaganem mountains Mussulman myriametres natives Numidia Oran pass Philippeville plain population port present province of Algiers province of Constantina province of Oran race reader regency ridge river road rocks Roman ruins Sahara Setif Seybouse Shellif side situated slopes spahis spot square Tableau territory Tlemsen town tribes troops Tunis Turkish Turks valley village walls whilst women zaouia
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Page 317 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 466 - Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered.
Page 26 - Muoiono le cittą, muoiono i regni, copre i fasti e le pompe arena ed erba, e l'uom d'esser mortal par che si sdegni: oh nostra mente cupida e superba!
Page 317 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Page 317 - And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Page 441 - The discharge of a cannon would not have been heard in the roar of that huge bhist-funiace, much less smokestrangled cries of human agony. The fire was kept well up throughout the night; and when the day had fully dawned, the then expiring embers were kicked aside, and as soon as a sufficient time had elapsed to render the air of the silent cave breathable, some soldiers were directed to ascertain how matters were within. They were gone but a few minutes, and they came back, we are told, pale, trembling,...
Page 315 - I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed ; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 459 - ... serai wall, exists an old-looking mandir ; as it stands, the mandir is an odd construction, apparently of various periods, and fragments of sculpture, resembling those at the Kutb, are inserted in the walls. Tradition ascribes the mandir to Shah Jehan's reign, which is probably correct ; but it must have been built on the site, and with the materials, of a much older temple. Chowmhan possesses a battlemented wall and gates in a ruinous condition. The Man mandir of Brindaban is a building, the...
Page 215 - Bastion, where there is a small creek, and the ruins of a fort, that give occasion to the name. The factory of the French African company had formerly their settlement at this place ; but the unwholesomeness of the situation, occasioned by the neighbouring ponds and marshes, obliged them to remove to La Calle, another inlet, three leagues farther to the east, where those gentlemen have a magnificent house and garden, 900 coraJ fishers, a company of soldiers, several nieces of ordnance, and a place...