. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. how would it strike that strangerwho, descending from another planet, wonderedwhy, if mens Duty was so clearly placed beforethem, they did not follow it, — how would heview the two great phases of religious worship 1Whose religion would seem most inspiring, whosetemple most fitting, whose altar most glorious,whose religion the most free from question, — themodern and enlightened, intrenched in orthodoxyand enthroned in state; or the benighted and un-regenerate, but earnest, nature-loving, and alwayssincere ] We shall have perhaps (if we make a se
. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. how would it strike that strangerwho, descending from another planet, wonderedwhy, if mens Duty was so clearly placed beforethem, they did not follow it, — how would heview the two great phases of religious worship 1Whose religion would seem most inspiring, whosetemple most fitting, whose altar most glorious,whose religion the most free from question, — themodern and enlightened, intrenched in orthodoxyand enthroned in state; or the benighted and un-regenerate, but earnest, nature-loving, and alwayssincere ] We shall have perhaps (if we make a seriousstudy of these subjects and put our heart into the THE ARABS FAITH. 169 work) to unlearn something that we have been taught about the steady painting of Madonnas and angels in our schools; but, if we do no more than make one or two sketches of such scenes as the above, we shall have added to our store of knowledge in a rough and ready way, and have familiarized ourselves with the sight of what —though barbaric — is noble and CHAPTEE VIII. KABYLIA. THE FORT NAPOLEOX. IT was almost impossible to take up a news-paper in Algiers, or to converse for liveminutes in a cafe or at the club, without the question Kabyle cropping up in some para-graph or conversation. Every day there camecontradictory news about the war, that it would really be over to-morrow, or the next day, orthe next week. It had lasted with more orless activity for thirty years, but now at lastthe smouldering embers seemed to be dyingont. The Djurjura Mountains stretching eastwardinto Kabylia, which we knew so well in their 172 ARTISTS AND ARABS. peaceful aspect, with the sun shining upon theirsnow-clad summits from morning till night, werestill the theatre of war. In the heart of themountains, about sixty miles from Algiers, and ata height of 3,000 feet above the sea, the Frencharmy was busily engaged in building a fortress,in order to keep the Kabyles at bay and giveprotection to the colonists ;
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