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30 ALGIEBS—PIRST IMPBESSIONS.
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stalk we see blue peaks of Atlas rising . To the west we see vineyardscypress-treesthe port and town of Algiersand nearly the
whole , of the _MiLstap , ha district , a mass of gardens and , villages . We count five houses inhabited by English , all resembling , more or less ,
the house we are describing , and most of them belonging to French lewho let them either furnished or unfurnished . The
unfurnished peop , are let for about £ 4 a month , and the furnished for about £ 12 a small house of four or five rooms would be cheaperbut
prices ; vary very much from year to year . This year the prices , are half what they were in 1856 ; in consequence of the general
depression of all kinds of trade and commerce , every French family is glad to let a part or the whole of their country houses .
The house we are describing is three miles from Algiers , and an omnibus within a short walk goes to Algiers every hour , as well as
other omnibuses which go inland and along the coast . These omnibusses are used by Arabs , Moors , Negroes , and Europeans ; all sit
together , chatting very amiably ; Arabs and Catholic priests exchanging inches of snuffand crinolined ladies exchanging civilities with
turb p aned Moors . These , omnibuses are very amusing and very useful for those who live in the country , as all the supplies have to be
fetched from the town , meat , vegetables , groceries , & c . At first the difficulties English find of it houseke troublesome ing and on bad arriving servants in Al but giers by to perseverance overcome the all
these troubles can be ep conquered , and a famil , y can be as comfortable in Algiers and its neighborhood talk as of in Italy or to the town South in of France .
It sounds very civilized to riding a twopenny omnibus ; but it does not sound so to talk of the nightly invasions of jackals into the garden and the frequent slaughter of poultry by
them . Yet this is the case ; within two miles of Algiers there are jackalsand their strange cry . more like the cry of a child than the bark
of , a dog , is one of the night sounds of the country . The postman calls regularly with letters , as in an English town , and brings
Enwe not glish are seem papers in so the very three South great times of , and France a week we often , until so that forget reminded the we distance are by in seeing Africa from the , home and Arabs think does .
We stayed to dine one day at , this house , and met a pleasant party of French people ; our friends gave us roast beef , and all the and French called
peop it delicious le who . had Our never dessert tasted was roast very beef beautiful took it to for look mutton at as , well as to eat : of a briht yellow full of veins , and ruddy on one side ,
ban In anas grapes the , pomegranates garden of g this , pear house s and we dates found , & violets c . , roses , and many other flowers in bloomthe treesthe castor oil plantthe india
hi rubber gh winds and were the pepper beginnin ; tree among g , to were blow the off most the , leaves beautiful from the in bare the foliage , _lmilb branches . erry The ,
the acaciathe elmand the other deciduous trees , of which , are the , only signs of winter we perceive . In the Arab
roads and lanes in the neighborhood there are no tokens of winter
30 Algiebs—Pirst Impbessions.
30 _ALGIEBS—PIRST _IMPBESSIONS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/30/
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