Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... officer of the Bureau Arabe , who related an anec- dote illustrative of the manners and customs of this charming people . The hero of the story is a rich and highly - educated chief who now resides at Batna , smothered in dignities and ...
... officer of the Bureau Arabe , who related an anec- dote illustrative of the manners and customs of this charming people . The hero of the story is a rich and highly - educated chief who now resides at Batna , smothered in dignities and ...
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... officers , and they dragged the spurs from off his feet . " You are not even a man , " echoed the crowd , and they took from him his burnous . " You shall no longer be the husband of our women , " and they robbed him of his wife , who ...
... officers , and they dragged the spurs from off his feet . " You are not even a man , " echoed the crowd , and they took from him his burnous . " You shall no longer be the husband of our women , " and they robbed him of his wife , who ...
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... officers came up , returning from the chase . They were well provided with game , for I soon saw strewn around me partridges and ducks , snipe and woodcock , bustards and hares , and an immense wild boar . There is good fishing out here ...
... officers came up , returning from the chase . They were well provided with game , for I soon saw strewn around me partridges and ducks , snipe and woodcock , bustards and hares , and an immense wild boar . There is good fishing out here ...
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... before- hand by the officers of Woods and Forests . These trees the concessionist cuts down , and sells as he best can , paying Government ten francs the cubic VOL . II . Р 210 MINERAL SPRINGS . metre for the privilege . Transit.
... before- hand by the officers of Woods and Forests . These trees the concessionist cuts down , and sells as he best can , paying Government ten francs the cubic VOL . II . Р 210 MINERAL SPRINGS . metre for the privilege . Transit.
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Lewis Wingfield. TOWN LIFE . 275 clothes . There were French soldiers and officers walking about with their wives . A lady or two , in ultra Paris fashions , looked far more odd in our eyes than the Orientals threading in and out among ...
Lewis Wingfield. TOWN LIFE . 275 clothes . There were French soldiers and officers walking about with their wives . A lady or two , in ultra Paris fashions , looked far more odd in our eyes than the Orientals threading in and out among ...
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Էջ 280 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.