. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. ds. These pleas-ant, genial, hut rather unhappy gentlemen donot talk shop ; it is tahooed in conversation, asstrictly as at the Rag : but the stamp of ban-ishment is upon their faces unmistakably, andif they do speak of the service in answer to aquestion, it is in language that seems to say,All ye who enter here leave Hope opinions happily differ very widely ; we werereluctant to leave the Fort. The Imperial Eagle crowned the heights ofBeni-Raten, the red kepis was dotted thicklyamongst the green foliage, the bugle was heardfrom severa
. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. ds. These pleas-ant, genial, hut rather unhappy gentlemen donot talk shop ; it is tahooed in conversation, asstrictly as at the Rag : but the stamp of ban-ishment is upon their faces unmistakably, andif they do speak of the service in answer to aquestion, it is in language that seems to say,All ye who enter here leave Hope opinions happily differ very widely ; we werereluctant to leave the Fort. The Imperial Eagle crowned the heights ofBeni-Raten, the red kepis was dotted thicklyamongst the green foliage, the bugle was heardfrom several hills, as we went down the military FRENCH OFFICERS. 19 road for the last time. It was late in the even-ing before we arrived at Tiziouzou, and the lastfigure that we saw in Kabylia — the last manthat dwells in our recollection — was neither Arabnor Kabyle. In the half light it might have beensome antediluvian bird that haunted this region;at any rate it added to our experience of the con-fusion of styles with which this country WINTER SWALLOWS. CHAPTEE IX. WINTER SWALLOWS. Oh que lhironclelle est bien la type de la vraie sagesse,elle qui a su effacer de son existence, ces longs hivers quiglacent et engourdissent! Des que le soleil commence a de-croitre, sitot que les plantes jaunissent et quaux chaudeshaleines du Zephyr succedent les froides rafales de Faquilon,elle senvole prudemment a tire dailes, vers les douces re-gions embaumees du Midi. WE come down the hills and back to Al-giers, to find the winter in full bloom,and the winter swallows in great force. Infact, so full of bustle is the town, and so fre-quent is the sight of English faces, and so familiarthe sound of voices, that it hardly seems like theplace we had left a few weeks since. It has been said that English people love sun- 200 ARTISTS AND ARABS. shine and blue sky more than any other nation,and that the dwellers under the ciel nebuleusedu nord will go anywhere to seek a brighterchine; and it is
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