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    ' ALGIERS: IXEtST IMPRESSIONS. 23

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    in all attitudes of prayer ; standing , kneeling , squatting cross-legged , be or prostrate heard is , the -with purring their foreheads of a number on the of ground beautiful ; the cats onl and y sound kittens to

    who At seem the entrance to belong of to the the place . on the steps leading down : to the

    dates port , a sort of market and almost is held mosque every , where , kind not of only southern grapes , fi fruit gs , bananas can be ,

    , oranges , boug offered ht , for but sale also . The vast onl numbers streets in of Al tortoises iers which and are chameleons wide enoug are h y g

    for carriages are those which have been be made aid b to y the be but French two , real and

    are for streets in , the and bod lower these in Al town are iers ; always in however fact crowded , there can with rides every in s an kind omnibus of conveyance the usual , poor

    camels price every of which and y horses is about g . The , twop houses ence . in Ther these , e are streets also are donkeys like , , the mule tall s ,

    French , houses of any town in France , and the shops are not remarkable , except perhaps for the high price of everything in them , and

    the number of Jews who inhabit them . which _. It is the the traveller old town , must or the penetrate upper town to , see or what the Moorish is reall town y African , into ,

    Easternand par excellence Algerian ; and certainly it is a wonderful place . , Enchanting and disgusting , dirty and poetical . head Here and go heart with

    the Arabian Nights in your hand , or rather in your , Alraschid and you will One be - transported eyed calender instantl s meet y you to the at every times step of the philosop good Haroun hically

    . , will to be be exp quite lained sure by that the prevalence the white of woman ophthalmia who flits . If by it is is evening going to , you the therthat

    the tomb man s beyond who walks the w behind alls of the her cit , evidentl y to enj y oy try a ing horrid to conceal feast his e face , in and

    his embroidered burnous , is her unhappy lord and master ! Up up mount , higher as if and they hig were her ; as up used flights to of them steps as which the hi the h road mules _throiig and donkeys h dark

    open alleys sky like , tunnels which is , houses a narrow meeting strip over of blue our heads seen g between , out again , hi under gh walls the ,

    windows till bars carve at of d length marble iron looking and we steps often into are . out the have The of street houses breath projecting , and , which and those iron sit surround are bars down small with to us rest and crescents have caged upon very at some with few the

    end to keep , off evil spirits from the house ; At a hole here and there black will a . door be eyes opens exposed may , probabl to be view seen y , the a , but beautiful columns oftener square of of marble voices the court court and and , music arched the little arches heard lot round of decorated ; about and if ,

    withcolored tilesand in the centre a pgarden ; the pendant leaves , of the banana hanging over a cistern of water , marigold the flame colore leam d in prince the sunshine ' s feather and and looking the brilliant as we do yellow at this African little

    enclosure g from the dark street ; , it is like fairyland , and we can

    understand something of the pleasure these Moors have in shutting

    ' Algiers: Ixetst Impressions. 23

    ' ALGIERS : _IXEtST IMPRESSIONS . 23

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/23/