Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29

/ countries for Just about three-quarters
| OF a century, and she has there
! shown what she can do In the way OK
| colonization. | understand that AL
eerja has excellent roads, and that
| / shall be able to get to almost any
| part Of 1t by train or By carriage. |
| want to visit the famous ruins or
North Africa 10 tell you how old Catn-
! age looks today and to get down 10
ruined city. as old as Pompeii. which
| the French are now digging out OF
the sands OF the Sahara. That city
! Is Timgad II was twice as large as
Pompei end It's ruins are. In many
respects, lar more wonderful,
IN THE sAHRA.-'.."..
one would naturally think that the
desert OF Sahara could never change.
That vast region OF sand and rock, larger
than the whole United States, would
appear to be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. de-
serted and forever dead. This Is not
the case The greater part or the Sa-
hara. IL now under the control OF
France. Its GASES are being increased
by means OF artesian wells. Roads and
railroads are being built into It, and II
has become accessible as never before.
The French have established a large
number of military stations In II, and
they have now camel police, which
protects the caravan tracks. shall go
down into this desert on the edge OF
Morocco, where the dangers are now
greatest. and later shall visit the GASES
there and those OF the regions farther
east.
After / leave the Sahara / Will de-
scribe desert life In Trlpoli. In the des-
ert of Libya and also in the great
Arabian desert which lies east of the
Nile. In the GASES | hope 10 visit the
date plantations, which furnish the
chief food OF these arid regions, and
to show how they are now being In
creased by the new means OF French
irrigation.
THE SULTAN IN NORTH AFRICA.
Turkey still has some possessions IN
north Africa. although Egypt has been
gobbled up by the British. Tripoli is
still untouched, and 1t Is the most
Mohammedan Of Mohammedan lands,
1t Is about 10 times as big as the state
OF New York, and It's capital Is the
chief center Of the caravan trade or the
Libyan desert and town of the Ara
blan Nights There are occasional boats
going there from Malta, and | shall be
able to visit il. am not sure that
Will not be able to reach II from Tunis
by the coastlng steamers which go
along the gulf of Gabes, visiting such
little towns as Sousse and Sfax. II do
this / shall be able to explore Kairouan,
the holy city OF north Africa. This Is
the place to which the Mohammedans
make pilgrimages Just as they do 20
Mecca and Medina In Arabia. II Is I'M
possible for strangers TO enter Mecca,
but | understand that one can see Kali
rouan. and that without an armed
guard.
TRAVELS IN EGYPT.
expect to find many new things In
the land OF the Nile. Egypt Is now un-
der the control OF the British and the
country is booming. Irrigation pro-
jects involving millions are under way,
schools are being established. new rail-
roads are building and, for the first time
since the days Of the Pharaohs, the Fell
laheen are having an honest govern
ment and moderate taxation The cot
ton lands are being rapidly increased
and plantations are being set out by