. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. .This excursion is the exclusive outing for manyof the women of Algerian coast towns, and ofit one writer observes: You can see them for yourself any Fridayafternoon if you will loiter about the white-washed gateway to the cemetery of Bou-Kabrin, on the hill above Algiers, for theybelieve that on that day — the Moslem Sab-bath — the spirits of the dead revisit theearth; hence their weekly pilgrimage to thecemetery to keep them company. When thesun begins to sink behind the Atlas, thesewhite-veiled pyramids of femininit
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. .This excursion is the exclusive outing for manyof the women of Algerian coast towns, and ofit one writer observes: You can see them for yourself any Fridayafternoon if you will loiter about the white-washed gateway to the cemetery of Bou-Kabrin, on the hill above Algiers, for theybelieve that on that day — the Moslem Sab-bath — the spirits of the dead revisit theearth; hence their weekly pilgrimage to thecemetery to keep them company. When thesun begins to sink behind the Atlas, thesewhite-veiled pyramids of femininity reluctantlybegin to make their way back through thenarrow, winding lanes of the native city, dis-appearing one by one through doors whichwill not open for them until another Fridayhas rolled around. Picture such a life, myfriends: six days a week encloistered behindjealously guarded doors and on the seventhtaking an outing in a cemetery! Occasionally an Algerian woman may seethrough some chink in her wall of seclusion —some lattice window, perhaps — a man other.
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