. Outing. xture offezzes and turbans and the long-flowing garments of the East we would havesaid, After all this is not the Orient,it is France. But French Algiers gay, beautiful,and modern as Paris itself (the guide-book expression) is after all only theouter bulwark, or rather the ornateframe of the picture it incloses. Thatpicture when you are fairly in the heartof it is as purely Oriental I believe asanything in the world to-day, and cannothave changed much since Mohammedan-ism came into power there a thousandyears ago. But I am getting ahead toofast. We did not penetrate the heart ofAlgie
. Outing. xture offezzes and turbans and the long-flowing garments of the East we would havesaid, After all this is not the Orient,it is France. But French Algiers gay, beautiful,and modern as Paris itself (the guide-book expression) is after all only theouter bulwark, or rather the ornateframe of the picture it incloses. Thatpicture when you are fairly in the heartof it is as purely Oriental I believe asanything in the world to-day, and cannothave changed much since Mohammedan-ism came into power there a thousandyears ago. But I am getting ahead toofast. We did not penetrate the heart ofAlgiers at once—only the outer edges. We drove to our first mosque—a typ-ical white-domed affair, plastered onthe outside, and we fought our waythrough the beggars who got in front ofus and behind us and about us, demand-ing sou-penny at least it sounded likethat—a sort of French-English combina-tion, I suppose, which probably has beenfound to work well enough to warrantits general adoption. We thought we. MEN WITH BIG COPPER WATKR JARS ON THEIR SHOULDERS THAI LOOKED A THOUSAND VEARS OLD.
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