Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15

of the toothsome American preserved meats.
Norwegian banks have brought coal from the
Baltic and tiles from France and Spain. Spanish
vessels are here with linen and wines from Bar
celona From Palermo and other Sicilian ports
are dainty crafts with flour and wines. Here
and there are Turkish vessels with tremendous
single sails, square-bult Iore and ait, with
sterns and prows
LIKE ANCIENT LOG CABINS,
Scores of the clumsy feluccas from Crete and
the Ionian islands, the chebecs of the Arabs
and the identical great boats of the olden pirates
lie low in the water here and there. their half
naked Gre elk or Arab sailors, 1.-THE of limb and
nut brown Of face, viyidly recalling those glo-
rious days of Barossa, oooty ana blood. But
quainter than all the rare old tubs from
Chioggia and Venice with the same high peaks
and sterns they had in the days of the Doges.
They come with the glass OF Murano, and have a
pafnted virgin on each bow as an endless sup
plication against every form of evil and peril.
The strangely contrasting scenes among this
wondrously varied shipping appeal strongly to
the eve and thought, but Algiers city and harbor
squarely face the Orient. and the rays of this
early morning sunlight engrave the scene land
ward with startling d1s1nctness. The figure
NAV be carried farther and reach positive exact
itude of description. Imagine snow-white
cameo cut with marvellous depth upon steeply-
rising bed of richest emerald, with q base of
pearl fretted at the cameo-edge with bronze, and
you have perfect picture of Algiers, at morn
ing, set upon the side OF her green heights. the
tween. And who can rightly tell of
the dazzling Wilderness of Algiers. No
wSndeF the a.h AfaS in n ereen and s
more POLITICALLY, sang of it 1.-The white dove
upon the hillside Here at the waters edge
are sgpendOuS au avs sbs sPIanadf5 s arches
succession of lighthouses, arsenals setting in
upon the line of sight. all terminating, in great
Fort Neuf, Point Ell Kettani, and the distant
glimpses of the white walls of st. Eug gene, at
the north To the south they sweep in graceful
curve to Fort Bah Azoun, where the shore
Low ov1
ward again to the far out-reaching promontory
of Cape Matifou, succeeding which is the CLINT
of another noble bay with the mighty headlands
of Djurdjura piercing the sea at the far horizon
edge beyond.
Before you rises the city new and old-new
where the stirring French have torn away an
cient mosques and fortresses and, with hundreds
OF millions of francs, built almost another Paris
in park. boulevard, hotel palace and monu-
ment; wholly old beyond and above, older than
Mohammadanism, perhaps some OF 1t
OLDER THAN THE BIBLE.
To your right and near the sea, the grand
mosque, Djamaa eI-Kebir, lifts its graceful
minaret, built by Tlemeen IN 1926 and nearer
still to the sea, the olden center of worship and
affairs, stands the mosque, Diamaa el-Djedid,
with its mighty central dome and four lesser
ones, built in the form of a Greek cross by
Genoese architect who suffered death by thus
having imposed a symbol of the Christian reli
gion upon Mussulmen worshipers. Beyond these
the thOroughfareS narrow; the structures grow
denser, snd old Algiers climbs the heights
mess of brilliant terraces, domeS and NINA
retS, housing q pOpu latiOn as weird and
strange the world can produce, to the nose of
the lofty promonitory behind. To the north the
city breaks away in detached villages towards
the sea. To the south and still mOuntainward,
stretches the villas and palaces of Mustapha Su-
pereur. Below it are plaZas and vast drill ma
neuvering grounds for the French army, And
still beneath, the quaint old walls and shad
owy streets where live the lowly of Algiers, in
Mustapha Inferieur. Above all, perched upon
the brow of the promontory, is the tremendous
anciet Fort PEmpereur, where the camp OF
Beaumont received the equalization of
Algiers. While just beneath, fit en-
biem of complete subjugation, are the
stupendous though ruined and crumbling
where, as the palace and stronghold of the Deys,
enormous treasure was stored. 1t was defended
by 200 pieces of artillery; lookOutS were kept
from its heights for luckless craft and signals
here given ordering their capture by the fierce
pirates of the harbOr; and it was in the now ex-
tinct palace within its walls where the slap of
gerian Dey. cost that potentate his dominion.
AS one looks upon it all in this glorious Algerian
morning time, the entire scene is one of
white-Winged peace and languorous rest.
White and green and pearly blue are in city,
heights, and sea and sky. There is a gravity
in movement or every human in sight
that tells repose. The sea is a bed of unruffied
pearl. The great mosques hint of cool silence
leading to shadowy mihrabs which ever point to
the one Mecca of the Orient and its restfuI para
disc beyond. Far in the depths of the hillside
verdure one sees where songful fountains
The deep green of olives, the lOrdly shade of
fan palms, even the lofty empurpled mountains
beyond the odorouS valleys. speak but of rest.
AS you step for the first time upon Africa's
shore, the sun, the sky, the sea, the air, noun
tain and valley, city old and citizen grave,
demure, seem one blended invitation to endless
and tender quietude in watching dreamlands of
repose. EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.