Four Months in Algeria: With a Visit to Carthage |
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... Night - The Beni- Mozabites - Mahometan Quakers - Commercial Spirit - An Arab Wedding - Tomb of Præcilius - Portentous Latinity of a prosperous Cirta Banker - Kabyle Market - Red Salt - Blind Beggars - Extreme Fertility - Falls of the ...
... Night - The Beni- Mozabites - Mahometan Quakers - Commercial Spirit - An Arab Wedding - Tomb of Præcilius - Portentous Latinity of a prosperous Cirta Banker - Kabyle Market - Red Salt - Blind Beggars - Extreme Fertility - Falls of the ...
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... Nights on the Plateau - Journey to Milah , a Roman Station - Recep- tion by the Kaid - Arab Hospitality - Vanity in Age - Effects of Fasting - Observance of the Ramadan a chief point of Religion . PAGE . 300 CHAPTER XII . Journey to ...
... Nights on the Plateau - Journey to Milah , a Roman Station - Recep- tion by the Kaid - Arab Hospitality - Vanity in Age - Effects of Fasting - Observance of the Ramadan a chief point of Religion . PAGE . 300 CHAPTER XII . Journey to ...
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... night by Megheur Ali , the successor of Omar , under whom the bombardment had been inflicted , and who was strangled by his own subjects the next year . The Djenina , the ancient palace , stood in the Place Royale , overlooking the sea ...
... night by Megheur Ali , the successor of Omar , under whom the bombardment had been inflicted , and who was strangled by his own subjects the next year . The Djenina , the ancient palace , stood in the Place Royale , overlooking the sea ...
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... as they understand it . I was exceedingly amused one night in the theatre by the proceedings of a young native chief of about twenty , who was brought there by a sort of Mentor , FOR FRENCH CIVILISATION . 35 an old Moor , apparently.
... as they understand it . I was exceedingly amused one night in the theatre by the proceedings of a young native chief of about twenty , who was brought there by a sort of Mentor , FOR FRENCH CIVILISATION . 35 an old Moor , apparently.
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... a moderate library there , and a fair collection of French periodicals , be- sides billiard and card rooms , of which the French avail themselves from morning till night . NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ALGIERS . 37 CHAPTER III . THE immediate.
... a moderate library there , and a fair collection of French periodicals , be- sides billiard and card rooms , of which the French avail themselves from morning till night . NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ALGIERS . 37 CHAPTER III . THE immediate.
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