A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . n and back after passingTabarca. Tabarca does quite an important trade in ex-porting cork. On exploring the little village welocated huge stacks of cork piled up on the beach,all ready for shipment. We also gleaned the in-formation that the inhabitants who saw us speed-ing along Road No. 26 thought we were absolutelycrazy to take the route, since no automobile hadever attempted to travel that way. We learned,however, that we had actually crossed and re-crossed the worst part of it, and that had we kepton for another five kilo
A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . n and back after passingTabarca. Tabarca does quite an important trade in ex-porting cork. On exploring the little village welocated huge stacks of cork piled up on the beach,all ready for shipment. We also gleaned the in-formation that the inhabitants who saw us speed-ing along Road No. 26 thought we were absolutelycrazy to take the route, since no automobile hadever attempted to travel that way. We learned,however, that we had actually crossed and re-crossed the worst part of it, and that had we kepton for another five kilometers we should haveemerged on to the National Road No. 25, whichwould have taken us right down into La Calle,along a magnificent surface. In order to circumvent this mountain, it is nec-essary to travel on Road No. 24, joining No. 25 atBabouch, where is also located the Tunisian Cus-tom House, that of Algeria being at La Calle. The next morning, Wednesday, January 8,soon after breakfast, we were under way againrunning due south over the excellent surface of [84]. ^ ^. 8 1-^ C ,^ h -5 Q K a z Uj < yi Z r 1 ENFIDAVILLE TO LA CALLE Highway No. 24, to Babouch. We were con-stantly climbing and came upon some magnifi-cent scenery with delightful views spread outbefore us in all directions, and superb forests ofvirgin timber and immense numbers of cork after starting, some young boy, mostprobably a shepherd, threw a rock at us fromone of the overhanging precipices, which landedplumb into the mechanics lap. Fortunately, noharm was done and we did not stop to thirty-five minutes we were at Babouch, atan altitude of 1,500 feet, and attained the summitof the pass. Another run along the highlands for32 kilometers brought us to La Calle, where ourcustoms papers were duly examined by the offi-cials at the Douane. Immediately afterwards wewere dropping rapidly down along the good roadon the western side of the mountain. For the15 kilometers before La Calle th
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