In the Land of Mosques & Minarets
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Mansfield Milburg Francisco. In the Land of 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”
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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Algeria and Tunisia are already the vogue, and Biskra, Hammam-R’hira and Mustapha are already names as familiar as Cairo, Amalfi or Teneriffe, even though the throng of “colis vivants expédiés par Cook,” as the French call them, have not as yet overrun the land. For the most part the travellers in these delightful lands, be they Americans, English or Germans (and the Germans are almost as numerous as the others), are strictly unlabelled, and each goes about his own affairs, one to Tlemcen to paint the Moorish architecture of its mosques, another to Biskra for his health, and another to Tunis merely to while away his time amid exotic surroundings.
This describes well enough the majority of travellers here, but the other categories are increasing every day, and occasionally a “tourist-steamship” drops down three or four hundred at one fell swoop on the quais of Algiers or Tunis, and then those cities become as the Place de l’Opéra, or Piccadilly Circus. These tourists only skirt the fringe of this interesting land, and after thirty-six hours or so go their ways.
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The Saharan desert is French down to its last grain of sand and the last oasis palm-tree, and it alone has an area half the size of the United States.
Of Mediterranean French Africa, Tunisia is a protectorate, but almost as absolutely governed by the French as if it were a part of the Ile de France. Algérie is a part of France, a Department across the seas like Corse. It holds its own elections and has three senators and six deputies at Paris. Its governor-general is a Frenchman (usually promoted from the Préfecture of some mainland Département) and most of the officialdom and bureaucracy are French.
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