The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . A NOMAD TENT IN THE DESERT. |J|)\(»IS ot ISIDE A RISKRA CAFE THE ARAB MARKET Allah. To the end of our stay he never failed tojoin us when we met, always with a suggestion ofsome charming excursion which he wished to arrangefor us, interspersed with many reminiscences of thenovelist, whose book has made Biskra (which is itsBeni-Mora in every detail) famous with many peoplewho, as travellers, would never have heard of were to meet many Arabs who claimed to beimmortalised in that work; especially Batouch, thepoet, who, since the book was writ
The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . A NOMAD TENT IN THE DESERT. |J|)\(»IS ot ISIDE A RISKRA CAFE THE ARAB MARKET Allah. To the end of our stay he never failed tojoin us when we met, always with a suggestion ofsome charming excursion which he wished to arrangefor us, interspersed with many reminiscences of thenovelist, whose book has made Biskra (which is itsBeni-Mora in every detail) famous with many peoplewho, as travellers, would never have heard of were to meet many Arabs who claimed to beimmortalised in that work; especially Batouch, thepoet, who, since the book was written, had, as wewere told, taken to religion, given up all com-munication with his many European friends, andretired to a life of contemplation and prayer in hisnative village some miles away. On his rare appear-ances in Biskra the rumour quickly spread that hewas with his friends in his favourite Arab caf^. Andthere one evening we saw him, grown into a mystic,and now a writer of religious poetry only, and quali-fying doubtless for the position of a maraboutamongst hi
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