. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . O -J o ^. ITALIAN, ARAB, AND TURK 281 was plentiful for all who could or would work, a mass ofstarving humanity was converted into a community thatfed and grew fat and learned to laugh. Most pitiful of allhad been the scared and wasted children, and to watchthem after a month or two was a grateful sight; plumpand contented, playing in the dust, or besieging a knot ofgrinning soldiers, loudly importunate in their demands foralms, they seemed to furnish a clear omen of good for thefuture. To the last the Turks persisted in the poli
. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . O -J o ^. ITALIAN, ARAB, AND TURK 281 was plentiful for all who could or would work, a mass ofstarving humanity was converted into a community thatfed and grew fat and learned to laugh. Most pitiful of allhad been the scared and wasted children, and to watchthem after a month or two was a grateful sight; plumpand contented, playing in the dust, or besieging a knot ofgrinning soldiers, loudly importunate in their demands foralms, they seemed to furnish a clear omen of good for thefuture. To the last the Turks persisted in the policy of fabrica-tion they had so consistently pursued. When peace wasduly signed between Turkey and Italy, and Neshat Beyhad to give up the struggle and leave Tripoli, he announcedto the Arabs that while the Turks had to leave the country,they left it to the Arabs, for the Italians also had agreedto go. His proclamation might have been a legacy oftrouble, and as such it was doubtless meant, but after aperiod of comparative trust in the Turk the Arabs hadre-learned suspici
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