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ALGIERS -FIRST IMPRESSIONS. 25
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are alone well worth a visit ; they are the tornbs of priests , called domes Marabouts in , and beautiful are good proportion specimens to of the Moorish heiht architecture of the walls , and having low *
very g mett arched owhich doors ; with these its tombs strai are ht stem surrounded and its by mass tall of groups fan leaves of the at pal the - g
top , is , , on a , smaller scale , quite as beautiful as the great feathery palm zareah -tree is . overed The side with of gravestones the hill sloping and down mounds inland ; here from the the jackals
Bouc often find a mealfor the Arabs do not bury their dead _Yevy deep . which _Hyeenas had are been still eaten to , be a found few ni here hts . before We saw by two the bones _hysenas of , a and donkey only g
two years ago a panther , strange to say , was found here ; probably he within had lost five his miles way of , or such certainl a nest y he of would hunters not knowing as Aliers ly have . A come few g
hundred with cacti yards ; the from dwellings the tombs are onl is y an tents Arab made village of mud strong , stones ly went fortified , into and
some branches of these of trees dens , each and guarde were d received by one or very more kindl dogs y b : y we the women , who- —though evidentl , y very poor , and all living in and one few room in the
cious utensils most miserable manner —were in very manner the hosp world , itable with . The , very and Arabs little offered men clothing us coffee women in and the most children cooking gra- ,
have admirable manners and gestures , and , never , seem in the least are emb naturall arrassed or well discomposed -bredwhich by can the be most said un of expected very few events if any ; of they the
northern nations y . Education , gives something of the grace which these and _approjDriateness southern people of possess gesture , but which never belong can g to ive the the Arabs perfect above dignity all
Arab other in peox int _3 le ellectual . The Kaby endowment les and , the have Jews not , races this g far ift ; exceeding the Spaniard the
peasant has it , and , and in then a lesser perhaps degree the the Moors , Italian , Kaby , and les next and to him Jews the , and French last
unaccustomed and of all can the be German comp to . " ared good and with societ the ease Eng y / . ' lishman or The any Arab society . Here woman at they all , , thoug is are always altogether h perfe at ctl her y ,
ease , and by her gestures can manage to exchange much goodwill charmed and express with much one woman delight whom on the we visited honor , she of a was visit very . handsome We were , nobl
black not devel very oped she young forehead wore -, immense and , which had a earrings was grand tattooed expression and round with , broad fine her neck eyes lines , very and of blue wei a g and hty y
; , very ornaments ancient of , as silver her apparent and pearls poverty . Prob contrasted ably these Arab painfull ornaments y with were such
their signs living of wealth by s . elling The poultry men of ( and this sometimes Gourbi , or by stealing village it again , gain , as the French who inhabit houses near the Bouzareah -find to their wood
cost and ) by , by collecting cultivating the the leaves land of the near palmetto , by cutting —which and are selling used in the ,
Algiers -First Impressions. 25
ALGIERS -FIRST IMPRESSIONS . 25
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/25/
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