Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-09-10

yialded its wine, its fruit, its bread and
its preserves. Among this agglomera-
ton of Moors, Berbers, Turks, Bedouins
and Muzaffirs, who are Europeans,
we're pashas. sheiks, cadis, all the lords
in the land walking through the crowds
of raayas which opened, humbly and
prudently. before the drawn swords OF
the soldiers. Il the truncheops OF the
police. or the zapties as there passed in
naughty indifference, the governor
general of this African cyclet, of this
province Of the Turkish empire, whose
administration belongs to the Sultan.
II there are more than 1900, 600 IN
Tripoli. with G000 soldiers-1000 for the
Djebel and 500 for the Cyrenaic the
town Of Tripoli itself has not moro than
from 90. 600 to pa, 900 souls. But on this
occasion it appeared as though the
population had been at least doubled
by the crowd of spectators. coming from
all parts of the territory. These rurals
had not, II is true, entered the capital
of the Regency. Within the walls of
the Notifications neither the houses.
Which through the worthlessness of
their materials soon fall into ruins, nor
the neiChboriug mole with its consulates,
nor the western quarter inhabited by
the Jews, nor the res, of the town
inhabited by the Mussulmans, were
equal TO such an invasion
But the plain of Soung- Ettelate was
large enough for the crowd of spectators
attracted 10 this feast of the storks
whose legend always receives due honor
in the eastern countries of Africa
This plain-a small fragment of the
Sahara. with its yellow sand often
invaded by the sea. during the violent
winds from the east surrounds the
town on three sides, and is about
1000 yards across. In strong contrast Is
the oasis of Menchie, with its white
walled houses, its gardens watered by
tho leather.chain pump worked by n
skinny COW, its woods of orange-trees,
cltrons, dates, its green clumps OF shrubs
and flowers, its antelopes, gazelles,
fennecs and hamingoes-a huge patch
of ground in which live not less than
30. 600 people. Beyond is the desert
which in no part of Africa comes nearer
to the Mediterranean. the desert and its
shifting sand hills, its immense carpet
of sand on which, says Baron Kraft,
1.-the wind raises the waves as easily as
on the ocean, the Lybian ocean with
its mists of impalpable dust.
Tripoli-a country almost rs large as
Francis bounded by Tunis and Egypt
Col ~ 4 tcta nf
hundred and ninety miles from the
Mediterranean coast.
1t was in this province, one of the
least known in Northern Africa. and
which will be, perhaps, one of the last to
be thoroughly explored that Sarcany
had taken refuge after leaving Tetuan.
A native of Tripoli, lie had returned to
the country which had been the scene
of his earliest exploits. Affiliated to the
most formidable sect of Northern Africa,
he had sought the powerful protection
of the Senousists, whose agent for the
acquisition of arms and ammunition in
foreign parts, he had never ceased TO be.
And when he arrived at Tripoii he had
taken up his quarters in the house of the
moqaddem, Sid Hazam, the recognized
chief of the scctaries of the district
After the capture OF Toronthal in the
road to Nice-a capture which still
remained inexplicable to him-Sarcauy
had left Monte Carlo A few thousand
francs that he had kept back from his
earliest winnings had enabled him to
pay his passage, and defrav his expenses.
He had good reason to fear that Toron-
thai would be reduced to despair, and
urged TO seek vengeance on him, either
10y revealing his past life, or giving
information as 10 the whereabouts of
Sava. The banker knew that the girl
was at Tetuan, in charge of Namir. and
hence Sarcanys decision to leave
Morocco as soon as possible.
He resolved to take refuge III Tripoli,
where he could avail himself, not only
of the means action but of the means
Of defence. But TO go there by steamer,
or the Algerian railways , the Doctor
had suspected would have been too
dangerous. And so he joined cara
van OF Senousists who we're on their
way TO the Cyrenaic, recruiting az they
went in the chief villages of Morocco,
Algeria and Tunis This caravan.
which would quickly travel the 500
leagues between Tetuan and Tripoli,
following the northern edge of the
desert, set out no the 18th OF October.
And now Sava was entirely at the
mercy o. her captors But her resolu-