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gle night whole orchards and corn Keids.
They are cunning and regular in their
tactics, having leaders, sentineIs, and
spies. They have regular discipline,
and system Of warfare: atfeast have
been old so. No traveller is accou nta
bic for all that he relates upon hearsayy
it is enough if he Quotes his authorities,
; and can assure you tha: a highly re
spectacle French drummer gave me his
word of hohour as to the fact, that the
monkies Of Bouga are well officered, and
that their commanderin.chief has regn
tar staff, Q Ierv, might he not mean a
switch? Yet, formidable as they are IN
their strategles, the natives contriye to
make many 6t them prisoners. The IA
by Ie peasant attaches IA goiIrd, well fixed
to a treey be puts some rice into il, and
streWs some grains at the aperture to show
that there may be more within, making a
hole Just large enough TO admit the paw Of
the monkey. Unfortunate pug puts in
his open paw and grasps his booty, but is
unable 10 draw It back because il is Cfen
ched, ana he is not wise enough to think
Of dncIenching it. Hence he remains, as
the law phrases II, with "hts person at
tached, )" and lie found next morning. look
Ing, you may suppose, very foolish and
penlteht. The ofden custom was to put
him instantly 10 death, but as he will now
fetch twenty francs at AgierS, he is sen
fenced only 10 Transportation, 50 that the
monkeys are al least one part OF that pop
uatioh who have beea benefited by the
.rrIvaI Of The French.
f The streets of AIgiers, as have told
, yon, are very dismal; and really, when
] Won meet Moorish woman, under their
gloom, IN drapery much resembling th,
, dress of our dead IN England, and looking
, as much as possible like a mummy or :
gh Jsf, she is far from inspiring gallant SCI
! satlons. Where you have light 10 see
t them, the bandness Of their legs is gent
iraiiy observable Under their shrouds, anc
e The shriveIed skin around lhelr eyes ind
r cafes that there is no great cruelty in theI
o veiiing themselves. Silt I must owl
If that have not seen the Moorish ladies' 5
as lojudge them fairly,
. T1e population OF The city Of Al
n giers nusl lave been greatly ex4gse
= rated by The guesses Of travellers il
{ The last century. for i; is impossible
: 10 conceive &c. 900 or lcO,GO0 hGnhaI
creatures ever 10 have been patkeC
. together within lis walls, The FreneI
r. cenats in 1893 enumerates the Ihhati
" tan lhns.-ll,SsO Moors, 1874 ne
" groes, 5049 Jews, sl85 French &
:. course notincIudIug gsoIders) and iS9
10 other foreigners, making sum total O
5; 23,753
al AIgiers has one Catholic church
uI formerly a mosque, and fourteen Jew
ii sh synsgogues. The religious hou
I'd ses of the MussuIrnans, by far tn
70 most imposing of their public buiI
le dineS, amounted before the arrival q
le The French to ten large mosques, an
II Rfy marabouts or chapeisj several {
~ hem, however, have been occup
- ~ by the French for military convent
- ence, and some oil The marabouts de
ID moiished. The mosques are almo:
d. all alike. Al the entry there Is fou
rt tain. with water Apwing into basr
" where The M0ssulmans perform thei
sblOtions before they PROSTATE then
,e selves 10 prayer. Every mosque ha
1. an octagonaI dome, and tall mnare
or like our steepIe, terminating in or
)" SCENT 10 which piece of wood is ;
y tathed whereoh 10 plant flag, whe
le the mauzeen ascends 10 the batllemeh
,e of the minaret In order 10 call The fail
- ful TO prayer, that his signal may b
,d seen when his voice cannot be heard
l. Some of the mharets are covered wit
" glazed tiles OF different colours, whic
[ have rather a gaudy effect.
Ut The largest rnosq ue Of AIsiel
lie stands at The entrance of the stret
| leading from the harbour. 1t Is
s, Iong rectangular edidce, divided lonG
tudinalIy into three naves by tworo"
10 Of pillars, and, under the dome, at a
e bout two thirds Of the length OF tn
y, = building, there are two other rows
III III pillars which form a cross with the IL
~ !" mer. On each side of the grand nav
% of there are galleries supported OF pillar
h of which those nearest the door are pu
10 lie, whilst those beyond The dome Or
X appropriated to the gentry Five
II six lustres Of glass, and several lamp
or are suspended with chains along tn
er whole length of the grand nave,
of we'll as long the rows of pilIafs whie
pt intetsect the dome. The lamps ar
'p lighted for the evening prayers, bu
u the ustres only on grand occasions
70 10 such as the least oFlhe Bayrati. Ther
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