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M. F. Mansfield. In the Land of Mosques & Minarets
In the Land of Mosques & Minarets
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I n t h e L a n d o f. Mosques & Minarets
CHAPTER I. GOING AND COMING
CHAPTER II. THE REAL NORTH AFRICA
CHAPTER III. ALGERIA OF TO-DAY
CHAPTER IV. THE RÉGENCE OF TUNISIA AND THE TUNISIANS
CHAPTER V. THE RELIGION OF THE MUSSULMAN
CHAPTER VI. ARCHITECTURE OF THE MOSQUES
CHAPTER VII. POETRY, MUSIC, AND DANCING
CHAPTER VIII. ARABS, TURKS, AND JEWS
CHAPTER IX. SOME THINGS THAT MATTER—TO THE ARAB
CHAPTER X “THE ARAB SHOD WITH FIRE” (Horses, Donkeys, and Mules)
CHAPTER XI. THE SHIP OF THE DESERT AND HIS OCEAN OF SAND
CHAPTER XII. SOLDIERS SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED—LÉGIONNAIRES AND SPAHIS
CHAPTER XIII. FROM ORAN TO THE MOROCCO FRONTIER
CHAPTER XIV. THE MITIDJA AND THE SAHEL
CHAPTER XV. THE GREAT WHITE CITY—ALGIERS
CHAPTER XVI. ALGIERS AND BEYOND
CHAPTER XVII. KABYLIE AND THE KABYLES
CHAPTER XVIII. CONSTANTINE AND THE GORGE DU RUMMEL
CHAPTER XIX. BETWEEN THE DESERT AND THE SOWN
CHAPTER XX. BISKRA AND THE DESERT BEYOND
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE WAKE OF THE ROMAN
CHAPTER XXII. TUNIS AND THE SOUKS
CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOSQUE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GLORY THAT ONCE WAS CARTHAGE
CHAPTER XXV. THE BARBARY COAST
CHAPTER XXVI. THE OASIS OF TOZEUR
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M. F. Mansfield
Published by Good Press, 2019
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With such a rich larder at their very doors, the mediæval Mediterranean nations were in a constant quarrel over its possession. Vandals and Greeks fought for the right to populate it after the Romans, but the Moorish wave was too strong; the Arab crowded the Berber to the wall and made him a Mussulman instead of a Christian, a religious faith which the French have held inviolate so far as proselytizing goes. It is this one fundamental principle which has done much to make the French rule in Algeria the success that it is. Britain should leave religion out of her colonizing schemes if she would avoid the unrest which is continually cropping up in various parts of the empire; and the United States should leave the friars of the Philippines alone, and let them grow fat if they will, and develop the country on business lines. We are apt to think that the French are slow in business matters, but they get results sometimes in an astonishingly successful manner, and by methods which they copy from no one.
The ports of Algeria and Tunisia are of great antiquity. The Romans, not content with the natural advantages offered as harbours, frequently cut them out of the soft rock itself, or built out jetties or quais, as have all dock engineers since when occasion demanded. There are vestiges of these old Roman quais at Bougie, at Collo, at Cherchell, at Stora and at Bona. These Roman works, destroyed or abandoned at the Vandal invasion, were never rebuilt; and the great oversea traders of the Italian Republics, of France and of Spain, merely hung around offshore and transacted their business, as do the tourist steamers at Jaffa to-day, while their personally conducted hordes descend upon Jerusalem and the Jordan.
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