. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 10 UNDER THE CRESCENT. real thing, with its queer stair-stepped streets;its houses which turn their backs upon youand lean toward one another in a neighborlyfashion overhead; its veiled, soft-treadingwomen who flit ghost-like by; its dirty littleeastern shops where dignified, turbannedproprietors dispense, for a consideration,strange things to eat, or dangle before yourfascinated eyes wonderful products of orientalhandicraft; and—its smells! When you are sojourning in old Algiersyou have trekked a thousand miles southf
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 10 UNDER THE CRESCENT. real thing, with its queer stair-stepped streets;its houses which turn their backs upon youand lean toward one another in a neighborlyfashion overhead; its veiled, soft-treadingwomen who flit ghost-like by; its dirty littleeastern shops where dignified, turbannedproprietors dispense, for a consideration,strange things to eat, or dangle before yourfascinated eyes wonderful products of orientalhandicraft; and—its smells! When you are sojourning in old Algiersyou have trekked a thousand miles southfrom Paris, and are in a region where thewhole countryside basks in the golden warmthof an African sun. To be sure in the summerthe withering heat from the Sahara ovensweeps over this region, but are there nottwo snow-crowned Atlas ranges in the rear,to order it back? And does not the refreshingcoolness of the blue sea in front add its quotato make what is pronounced to be a per-fect sub-tropical climate? But Tunis and Constantine and Algiersare but the well-known high lights in thisinadequat
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