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SOCIETY IN ALGIERS. 97
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an officer in the royal navy , when he had only been a cook on board a iaan-of-war .
In 1844 a man assuming the noble prefix of De la— , was villages b appointed the hi in by hest the Government nei authorities ghborhood . medical Every of Al thing g in iers spe , ctor - and went of was well the warml with newl y y him received -settled for
y g himself of sev the eral Leg y out ears ion a , martyr until d ' Honneur he to becam dut . y . He e eaten He systemat comp up with lained icall the y bitterl set desire to y work of of being being which to make dis one he
liked bthe settlerswho asked him for expensive medicines , it was was obli y very ged dangerous to refuse , to to save fulfil expense the office to the of Government inspector among ; he 1 the lso out said
laws and depraved people who formed the most part of the new palace e settlers vening of ; he the having abruptl Hydra prepared y , entered and there the the appeared house way by of to Mr such faint . -like away , near comp ; after the laints ancient assist , one
ance had been rendered him , and he appeared to recover , he related sassina that he ti had onand just b been arin the his victim left arm of and a most leg showed cruel and them outrageous both stained asg
with blood . , Three days after he came to my home , and requested an examination and a written account of his wounds , to lay with his
riding own comp home laint from before his the round procureur of visits . He , when affirmed a man that who he immediatel was was waiting quietly
him afterwards behind with a a bush poi another gnard fired , man at and him , spring inflicted , but ing without the at wounds him any , seized effect which , and him he showed and struck me y .
I examined them ; they were superficial , quite clean at the edges , inhand dicating a hand that they certainl had been in no made haste very and cautiously rather by by a bistory an experienced than any
other , weapon . I said y , " Your aggressor , certainly had no very strong intention to hurt you ; and _halving struck you twice , it is strange that that
he on has foot made who exactl attacks y the a man same on wound horseb ; it ack is extraordinary should inflict two a such man wounds as these have received on the leg paid on the arm . If
warn the procureur beforehand demands you that my I examination must say your , I shall wounds give appear it him , to but me I
to have you been made by , a friendly hand . " heard The inquiries the spot of indicated the police by proved the doctor that and no the gun settlers shot had accused been
him have of been near having the made case . the Some wounds himself s after , it which ; was I found myself out believe that he to year
was no physician at all . Instead of being , prosecuted by the authoprotectors rities , he was found only him compelled another . to We resign must his remark post its , and , that his the numerous It French often
becomes happens Government when bankrupt is it not has ; very and confe fortun many rred at a of e decoration in its choosing most petted on a proteg merch emp _es loy ant . 6 , s thai magis he - de i 6 te
trates , notaries , directors of prisons , hospitals , and monts p _>
Society In Algiers. 97
SOCIETY IN ALGIERS . 97
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/25/
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