. Outing. verting Story of Algiers This is a voyage of happymornings. It was morning—just sunrise — when we metthe American fleet homewardbound; it was morning whenwe caught the first glimpse ofMadeira and steamed into theharbor of Funchal; the shoresof Morocco—our first glimpseof the Orient—came out of thesunrise, and it was just sunrisethis morning when I looked outof my porthole on the blue har-bor and terraced architecture ofAlgiers. And the harbor of Al- .giers is blue, and the terracedarchitecture is white, or creamy,and behind it are the hills ofvivid green. And there arepalms and cypre
. Outing. verting Story of Algiers This is a voyage of happymornings. It was morning—just sunrise — when we metthe American fleet homewardbound; it was morning whenwe caught the first glimpse ofMadeira and steamed into theharbor of Funchal; the shoresof Morocco—our first glimpseof the Orient—came out of thesunrise, and it was just sunrisethis morning when I looked outof my porthole on the blue har-bor and terraced architecture ofAlgiers. And the harbor of Al- .giers is blue, and the terracedarchitecture is white, or creamy,and behind it are the hills ofvivid green. And there arepalms and cypress trees, andbougainvillea and other climb-ing vines. Viewed from theship it is a picture city, andframed in the porthole it becamea landscape miniature of won-drous radiance and vivid hues. One of our passengers, a hap-py-hearted, elderly Hebrew soul, came along the promenade just outside The Orient and the Occident have metmy stateroom and surveyed the vision here, and the Occident has conquered,. DOT SUNRISING AND DOT HARBOR AND DOT CITYALL MAKE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. through his Presently he wTas joinedby his comfortable, good-natured wife. Vat you get me up so early for,Sol ? she said. but the Orient is the Orient still, and will be, so long as vestige of it remains. The story of Algiers, like that of every Mediterranean country, has been He handed her his glass, his whole a motley one, and bloody enough, offace alive with joy of the moment— course. The Romans held it for nearlyfairlv radiant it was. five hundred years; the Vandals fol- 46 THE OUTING MAGAZINE
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