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... Soldiers - Mostaganem - Ill Success of French Settlers - State of Morals - Visit to Mazagran - French Feat of Arms - An Ill - fated Monument - Souk - el - Mitou - Enormous Olive - Trees - Valley of the Cheliff - Traces of the Emperor ...
... Soldiers - Mostaganem - Ill Success of French Settlers - State of Morals - Visit to Mazagran - French Feat of Arms - An Ill - fated Monument - Souk - el - Mitou - Enormous Olive - Trees - Valley of the Cheliff - Traces of the Emperor ...
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... Soldier - Dread of Evil Omens - Timber - trade of Batna - Mountaineers of the Aurès as yet unsubdued - Ancient Numidian Monument -- The Ma- drasen a Fire Temple - Search for Treasure - Cold Nights on the Plateau - Journey to Milah , a ...
... Soldier - Dread of Evil Omens - Timber - trade of Batna - Mountaineers of the Aurès as yet unsubdued - Ancient Numidian Monument -- The Ma- drasen a Fire Temple - Search for Treasure - Cold Nights on the Plateau - Journey to Milah , a ...
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... soldiers , whose wives . take in washing . The decaying bastion was em- ployed as a drying - ground when I visited the place , from which an admirable view of Cape Matifou and the mountains of Kabylie may be obtained . Very soon after ...
... soldiers , whose wives . take in washing . The decaying bastion was em- ployed as a drying - ground when I visited the place , from which an admirable view of Cape Matifou and the mountains of Kabylie may be obtained . Very soon after ...
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... soldiers , granted them free permission to plunder the Jews for a certain number of hours . The Moorish children used always to beat those of the Jews when they saw them in the street , and the least resistance would have been punished ...
... soldiers , granted them free permission to plunder the Jews for a certain number of hours . The Moorish children used always to beat those of the Jews when they saw them in the street , and the least resistance would have been punished ...
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... soldiers were also provided with a kind of movable palisade , formed of lances chained three together , which was intended to defend them against the attacks of these formidable horsemen . But nothing can be more unlike the Mameluke ...
... soldiers were also provided with a kind of movable palisade , formed of lances chained three together , which was intended to defend them against the attacks of these formidable horsemen . But nothing can be more unlike the Mameluke ...
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Abd-el-Kader Africa Algeria Algiers ancient animal appeared Arabs army arrived Arzew Atlas Aurès Batna Blidah Bona Boudouaou Bougie brought built camels camp Cape caravanserai Carthage character Cheliff Cherchell chief cisterns coast commandant Constantine course cultivation descends distance eight elevation Emperor European existed extremely feet Fonduck fortification four francs French Government ground Guelma harbour hills horses houses immediate neighbourhood inscription Isser Jemappes Kabyle Kabyle language L'Arbâ labour land latter limestone lion Magaria Maison Carrée marabout Maskara Mazagran Mechouar Médéah Metidja miles military Moorish Morocco mosque Mostaganem mountains mules native nearly night occupied officer Oran passed Philippeville plain plateau population probably province remains river road Roman route ruins Sahel Sebaou Sebkah seemed side Sidi soil soldiers spahi Spaniards steamer stone tion Tizi-Ouzou Tlemçen told tomb town tribe Tunis valley village walls whole wild
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