Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-22
IN NORTH AFRICA.
An Interesting Region Which is MAJ
urally European-A Shallow
Veneering Of Islam.
The Kebylsa an ArIan Fssce-Chsrac,eris
Tics CT the Peopls-R M rs CT RCmSu
GrsatusEr-rhe mission Of franc.
Contemporary Review.


The truth is inst NJr,l Americ. is nc;
even by origin part OF the comment 10
which it has handed on It's own much
abused name. The old Africa Of the
Maurit4nian Atri has nothing a. all TO DO
with the new Afeics Of the barbaroue ne-
groes. Il is ana les always been from
The very beginning ca integral part of
Europe, separated from S9aia ard Sicily
only by the nGrIOw seas at Gibraltar end
Cape iBon, bui divided from the great
soid DluCk # Negrclsud by the wide il
tervening 6xpanse Ct the sanCy desert.
Egypt, IN spite Of lis Mediterranean front,
is tue portion of he Dark Continent, q
mass CT Nile mud deposited seward by
the endless river fed i1om the lakes and
snowy mountains OF tue fsr interior. But
Morocco, Algerls, Tunia, ana in fact.
TIipoH, consist Of . single long, subsid-
icg sierra Of the Spanish system, srtih-
claliy divided from the remainder CT its
mass by the accidental intrusion CT the
sea at Tsugier snd Carthage.
PIECE OF EUROPE CUT OFF.
Whether the bed Of Ssnara YVES once an
immense SOU hern Mediterranean or not,
1t is ct aDy rate Certain tiaG al the Exist
in wa Ch l wi, venture 70 iDclude also the
human inhsbitspt5--eateTsd the country
from the north, from the European lard
Hres. The plants and arimsis ere simply
tie plslts and aniuEi5 OF Spain, Sicily,
Icsly and SsTtinis. The birds ere just
the larks ard thrushss, the ort0laps
and ploveCs, that range over
The greater part Of Europe
The reptiles snd insects sTe equally
familiar in fOIm aid character. Ills cUly
Ia tbe extreme sUC5l, On the borders OF
the desert, that true Africsp types, Ike
the panther and ostrich, o. gin to sgpear
- mere northern strsggleTs. A few fresh
safer fsn alone lux the tauEs q the
Alas TO ire African world; for the mos
part Africa, in the modern sense, begins
south Of Sahara.
Nevertheless, while il every physical
end native Characteristic the great bulge
0! larG between the SyrEis ana the At
Is2tic is al Europe, in external and arti-
hcjsl characteristics, it must be frankly
admitted that en- the first flush it seems
81 Orient. The visitors to Algiers, aud
isr more to Tuni5 or Morocco, ia struck
81 the outset, as he treads me Moorish
snore, with al unwoEted sense OF novelty
ED ioreignness. Everything ct first
glance appesrs wonderfully unfamiliar.
The tall and stately Arabs in their pic
iuyesque dirt, the melancholy Ktbyles in
their grimy burnCuses, the fittirg Moor
ish women discrcetly yelled with haik
and Ysshmsk up to their too lCquacious
eyes, the mosques and mlnarsts, The
domes and kouobAs, the horseshoe srches,
the Moslem srChitecture-su these seem
to tell eloquently OF something tsr from
European or Christian. The very
aspect OF n.:ure is St. the first glimpse
equally f:hscious. Date palms s1G
bananas in all the gardens give an almost
tropicxl sir to the sq1at ard ist-roof-d
Moorish villas. Tsll iCweIirg slices and
prickjy cactus hedges remind ore
instinctivsly ST every turn Ct Mexico or
Jamaica. Strings Of laden cameis, fresh
in with dates or slfagrass from the desert,
and negro irtfi:ksrs from the Gases, in
cay coored robes Increase the frequent
suggestion 9; 81 5outhern world. Add to
all these the cleaning, white domed
houses On the dry, red hillsides, and tie
tiled aICady 8 or the Thltewashed shrine
w5ere some holy Marabcut lies buried in
he odor Of sanctity, and the shade of the
doum palms, sud you may be we'll tx