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MAMA MARABOUT, AND OTHER ALGERIAN WOMEN....
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• #? On Easter Monday We Left Our House,...
Arab In two fashion hours , with of quiet light _flewing riding garments we arrive over d and at our Staouli at dark this cloth _, where habits the .
Trapp should ists have have stopped an immense a little establishment while for thrust companions , from the coming village door from with we
the Al our giers rudeness horses , but for the of her grief woman husband , and of the tol was d house us lying she could ill , near us do d nothin ying , g of for cholera us or .
with So on bushes we rode , of , myrtle throug , h white a wild scented , uncultivated The sides heath of , , { circa the wavy road arbor country ea , ) _* lavender , flowered covered ,
gum mosaiced cistus , with juniper , and hue firs . the red ladiolus the most were magnificent , the or almond-scented every white ; heath the g most lovely , the orchis the lica the sweetest
strangest , but , to my thinking , the lavandua sp of carelessness ago This all by . country great of forests , the from Arabs of the firs sea , which to the have plain , been was burnt covered down a few by years the
. modern In the farmhouse valley of built the river of rubble Massafrau , and , coarsel we came y plastered upon a , large with
the ugly wilderness green shutters The , , and lean looking Arab dogs like a some French dozen town , gave -house us lost a most in
. , not inhosp wanted itable b recep them tion , at and least a very ; but vivid Madame impression Adelaide that ' s kind we were and y
good cordial addition lunch greeting of , good of cold soon cream porcup set and us ine at butter ease and , , p and ickle rarities when d wild in she Al boar invited geria , with , we us to felt the a
quite I had at home often . heard of Madame Adelaide as the model colonist ' s whofrom
wifea cleverbrave , good Frenchwoman , , having come the a small dangers ; country and , town difficulties in France of , an had African adapted colonist herself 's admir wife , abl and y we to
had She long has wished been to nearl make twent her acquaintance y years in . Algeria , and whatever y
success her husband and sons have had , they all assert is due to herI andout of love to her , they call their campagne Ste . Adelaide .
She ; has braved , fever , Arabs , and wild beasts ; she has been cook , carpenter a good ioneer , baker 's , wife butcher must , doctor be , who , tailor goes , everything to convert in a desert fact which into
p the We home had of ridden a civilized over famil in four y . hours , along the safe and excellent Massafrau riverbut when
Madame Imperial road Adelaide , from and Algiers her to famil the y great first came here , it ; was often , .
during twenty the mile rains s off , , often an eig took ht days longer ' journey than . it In does fact to , to go go to to Al London giers ,
now This . rich and beautiful valley of the Massafrauwhich they had
determined to convert into their home , was then haunted , by fever denselinhabited Arabs
and wild beasts , and the hills above y by ,
Mama Marabout, And Other Algerian Women....
MAMA MARABOUT , AND OTHER ALGERIAN WOMEN . 405
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/45/
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