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104 SOCIETY IN ALGIERS.
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least gether oeeding successful dozen , lie took wounds . Ms He gun inflicted presented and shot by a himself himself most horrible , . but Generall was spectacle not y even speaking , having then , alto the at
a officers and soldiers who commit suicide shoot themselves . This may be said also of the French population usually . Moors and Jews seem bcharcoal
particularl is a method y to never delig chosen ht in hang , excep ing ting themselves by the French . Suffoc . ation Poisoning y and whether
drowning are means of getting rid of life used by all races , native suicide or is b European throwing . The themselves commonest from way off of the women flat roofs committing of the
houses into the y streets . It often happens that a passing mania to commit suicide attacks people "who , when saved , live happily , and that
bankers to are suicide thankful ) living is sometimes to - escape in Algeria death hereditary , . one There at . Or There is an no and wer doubt e one two in brother a the disposition town s ( both of both of them
Algiers , both of them were rich and prosperous , but destr Among oyed th the emselves priests when we have they known arrived of at some a certain strange age suicides . enter and
eccentric here crimes it is , the details h to and that causes the priesthood of which , from we cannot the bishop upon ; enougsay character , for the puritand
downwardsdo not bear a greatest y devotion . The , sisters of charity and the cures have often , neverthelessshown the most heroic courage and self-abnegation in times of
pestilence , , of war , and other dangers and troubles with which the settlers have had to combat . to the black
It must not be thought that there is no bright side p is icture certain we that have for drawn fantastic ; this crimes is very and far for from eccentric being the characters case ; but the it- _^
student of human nature may travel far without finding such a rich min When e as in we thi search s French for colony noble acts of Al we geria cannot . say they are so easily
devotion to be found and , and proofs yet of we fidelity know , to of love many and acts friendshi of impulsive p , not to self be
paralleled than in France , in the or history England of to any find country men . willing It is much to risk commoner their lives here to
save others from fireor from drowning , or other perils . On the pier during at Algiers his is life a had monument saved , erected to le the from memory drowning of an and officer who who lost
many peop , is his not life unusual at last in and a in daring fires attempt the readiness of the with sam which e nature men . are This found case
ready children to but dart furnitur ; into the e flames clothe , s , not and onl other y to propert save y men , is , very women remark , and
able ; to it make , show both s a car the elessness , virtues and , of life vices and to be an found impulsiveness in the Algerian which
goes character . The love of gain is not strongldeveloped hereas a general
y , which rule , or are anywhere but emp in irical the south cannot , and be app the lied laws here of ; political the same economy motives ,
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104 Society In Algiers.
104 SOCIETY IN _ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/32/
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