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65 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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and contains meteorological tables . Ample details regarding tiie health of the colonyand the hygienic regimen desirable to be
pursued by Europeans in , the different seasons of the year , are given at lengthand Dr . Bodichon ' s long experience as a resident physician
; enables him to speak with authority on all these points . Chapters four and five are descriptive of native manners and customs , and of
various points of interest in the country . Here is an anecdote told in the course of a ride on horseback : —
" We turn seawardsand go down to the sandy shore for some minutes , to take our horses into the _^ blue crystal waves ; tlien b continue our route dens which along
the scent flat the land air with which an "borders exquisitel the y delicate sea . "We perfmne bri pass ht , y lanes orange colored shaded gar with geraniums olives ,
in scrambling carrubas the sunshine , and wild lentis in clos the e c , b hedges fiery , scarlet le gleaming and or white out iris g of in dark rose delicious - shadows masses , or burning relieve , ; ypurp
shadows the eyes . this * luxuriant Those dazzling vegetation , lights , this on azure the Moorish sea , are houses enough , to those make blue us
all drunk I , with thinking pleasure of ; you visit are too yesterday dull for / such rejoined a day Lad , Lad y y A A . . ' to that
" ' was my , Moorish windows house and three you domes see hig surrounded h upon Boujereah with a hed there ge of ; cacti that , a one row with of black no
it cypresses can hardl , standing y be said round to be it , al , ive looks . like I went what there in fact with it is Mrs widow , a . tomb T— and , , for who her those speaks little in
off g Arabic irl ; Mrs their , to . see T dreary — a was Moorish live of little s made lad use y of an for distinction impression the Moorish , upon a young ladies me which have , I very cannot little shake to
cl always converse o . thes cost ask ab if ; out and you ; all when are the married you Moorish have , how , families aske many d them children are the very you same much have _que alik , stions and e , what the , there ladies your is
that barbarous little '' Le is more to Doeteur be state to known be , : they said ' That ab . ' are out is simp their in truth le lives , and all all they The very have wife much of to a say alike French ; , like you workman all soon peop learn le in is all a a
thousand thousand times times more more civilized complicated than and . the richest interesting in his Moorish last . I illness know lady , the hers is a lad being is y you sad a
history a visited . . I Her irl attended of father fourteen , her the father Dey the , brother when , the quite Dey of the , an g old irl man agreed , demanded to give : his in marriage , sister a in g ;
marriages marriage young if took the p Dey lace immediatel would give y him . In his less daug than hter a brother year in exchange the It old , Dey and , without the two the
brother any alleged that cause his , sister sent back should his young be repudiated wife to her in this manner . so , enraged that out of revenge he sent back the Dey ' s daughter , his wife , and she was the widow
you saw . ' # * # * teacher ¦" "We and found conductor at Lady of A the . ' s Madame Moorish school Luce , the for ori irls ginator the first and Christian energetic
g , All woman honor who to has her made name and a breach success in to the her prison endeavor life , of the the difficulty Eastern of women which . _,
no is one a clever , who , has agreeable not examined woman , her with schools a forehead , can be which aware , . reminded Madame me Luce of
Caroline Chisholmo " Here is the result of a lion hunt , several days journey inland ; —
able u . We Our found accommodation , on reaching that Teniet ni , g th ht at did it is not the deserve most wretched the name place . M imag y room
in-If VOL . III .
65 Notices Of Books.
65 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/65/
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