. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. the Gorge de Tilaton, and theGorge de Beni Ferah, all of which are said to beremarkably impressive, and for those who hadmore time at their disposal than we had in ElKantara, several days may be well spent in ex-ploring the surrounding country. While in El Kantara we succeeded in obtainingseveral good photographs. We then turned ourcar to the south, en route for Biskra, some 53kilometers across the desert. On the south sideof the town as we left, we passed an Arab bury-ing ground, the graves of which were marked bya few roug
. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. the Gorge de Tilaton, and theGorge de Beni Ferah, all of which are said to beremarkably impressive, and for those who hadmore time at their disposal than we had in ElKantara, several days may be well spent in ex-ploring the surrounding country. While in El Kantara we succeeded in obtainingseveral good photographs. We then turned ourcar to the south, en route for Biskra, some 53kilometers across the desert. On the south sideof the town as we left, we passed an Arab bury-ing ground, the graves of which were marked bya few rough stones heaped up in a pile. The road skirts the river for a few miles andcrosses it by a bridge some two or three kilometerssouth of El Kantara. It then runs parallel to therailroad for practically the whole of the remain-ing part of the route, and a flat plain, with a veryfair roadway is traversed for the next 35 kilo-meters. Then, after breasting a high hill with asharp climb to the top, we suddenly found our-selves gazing down over a vast plain, with the [106]. ■< PS < H W < a<o EL KANTARA TO BOUGIE town of Biskra far away to the south, resemblingnothing so much as a green ink blot on a bigbrown blotter. That, at least, was the impres-sion I received on my first sight of this beautiful and restful it appearedfrom my point of vantage high up in the hillsabove it. Midday found us drawn up in front of our hotelin Biskra, one of a number from which the visitormay take his choice. The Royal is very good,as is also the Oasis; but my, what a bitter disap-pointment is the town itself upon a closer ac-quaintance, and how changed from its cool andinviting appearance as seen from a distance!Dirty and dusty to a degree, full of flies, noisyguides who never ceased following us through thestreets and pestering us with offers of their un-welcome services, bad boys and beggars, and quiteimpossible shop keepers, and hordes of Cookstourists, who floated by in c
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