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    ALGERI3™ ITGTES. 31

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    VI.—ALGEKINE NOTES-

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    ¦ » THE WILD BOAE.

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    ; ? ; — Xt Air Etait Pur; Un Dernier Jou...

    Tin seul instant je _Tavais viie a peine , Comme un esquif que la vague proniene

    Voguer en paik : , - Soudain le _flpt la rejette an rivage ;

    Ce leger choc decida son naufrage . — Je 1 ' attendais !—

    Je fie a . l'onde une feuille nouvelle , Cherchant le sort que pour mon luth fidele

    J ' osai prevoir ; Mais Vainement j ' esperais un miracle

    Un vent rapide emporta nion oracle , Et nion espoir .

    ¦ Sur O . u . mp cette n talent rive ou sur ma _Taile fortune du zepnire expire ,

    S ' est envole , Vais-je exposer sur _Telement perfide

    Un vceu plus cher ?—JNbn , non , ma main timide A recule .

    Mon faible coeur , en bl _^ mant sa faiblesse _^ ! Ne put bannir une sombre tristesse

    Un vague _eflrbi : , Un coeur malade est credule aux presages ;

    Ils amassaient de menaQans nuages Autour de moi . "

    , i ' .. Le vert rameau de mes mains glisse a terre : i- ' Je m ' eloignai pensive et solitaire

    Non sans effort : , Et dans la nuit mes songes fantastiques

    Autour du saule aux feuilles prophetiques , Erraient encor !

    Amable Tastu .

    Algeri3™ Itgtes. 31

    _ALGERI 3 _™ _ITGTES . 31

    Vi.—Algekine Notes-

    VI . _—ALGEKINE NOTESPART I . _AILGEEINE ANIMALS .

    ¦ » The Wild Boae.

    ¦ » THE WILD BOAE .

    When I landed at Algiers , in April , 1836 , the whole European population numbered fourteen thousand soulsof whom seven

    thousand inhabited Algiers and the neighborhood , , and the remainder Bona and Oran . Colonists had settled not only within the walls

    of Bona and Oran , but for some few miles around Algiers . The country retained its native character and abounded with game of

    every kind . Partridges , hares , and rabbits , lived in the very forti-

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/31/