Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903 . ving. The unpro-ductive class who are at the head of state, and thisincludes the church, must be supported by the taxeslevied on what little industry they yet have, conse-quently the people are poor and discouraged. Ifthe common people here were educated; if a fair and
Letters of travel : journey in the Bermudas, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France, 1894 : in Mexico, 1896, in Canada, 1898 : in Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, 1900 : in Morocco, Spain, Algiers, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Belgium and London, 1903 . ving. The unpro-ductive class who are at the head of state, and thisincludes the church, must be supported by the taxeslevied on what little industry they yet have, conse-quently the people are poor and discouraged. Ifthe common people here were educated; if a fair andjust government would allow the people of thiscountry to hold and enjoy a fair proportion of theproducts of their labor; if inducements were giventheir poor people to build and own a home and onlyreasonably taxed, I believe they would improvetheir condition. This is all I wish to say of Spainor about her people now. We are pleased withour visit here. We have seen many novel it is quite a hardship to travel in a strangecountry and among people with whom you cannottalk, where their ways are so different from ourways, and where they are unaccustomed to meetingforeigners like ourselves, yet we enjoyed our tripin Spain, and I vshall remember it as a pleasantpart of this journey Granada, Spain, March 15, 1903. 316. LANDING FROM SKIP—ALGIERS. LETTER XXXXII. ALGIERS, AFRICA. LANDING IN MOONLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.—WHAT THEFRENCH HAVE DONE HERE.—THE ARABS ASWE SEE THEM. A FEW days ago we left Spain and at Gib- raltar went aboard the large ship New ^ ^ England, on its way from Boston toAlexandria, Egypt. We arrived here in the mid-dle of the night, and had to go to the landing (asis usual in Mediterranean ports) in small boatsrowed by the natives. For an extra franc a livelyArab helped us through the custom house and se-cured us a carriage for the St. George Hotel, whichis located on the heights far above the city, over-looking one of the most magnificent bays in theworld. T
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